What Does the Bible Say About Prayer?

The Bible records over 650 prayers. These verses show not just instructions about prayer, but actual prayers — raw, honest conversations between humans and God.

17 verses·5 eras·8 promises

Divided Kingdom (~930 BC)

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Jeremiah 33:3· YahwehPromise
even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."

Life of Jesus (~30 AD)

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
Mark 11:25· JesusPromise
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Matthew 21:22· JesusPromise
Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Matthew 6:9· JesusPrayer
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'
Matthew 6:13· JesusPrayer
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:13· JesusPromise
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Matthew 7:7· JesusPromise
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
John 14:14· JesusPromise
saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

Early Church (~50 AD)

Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25· LukePrayer

United Kingdom (~1000 BC)

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Psalms 141:2· DavidPrayer
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Psalms 50:15· GodPromise

patriarchs

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Genesis 18:25· AbrahamPrayer

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