prayer
What does the Bible say about prayer? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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24For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.
26And similarly, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself asks on our behalf with ineffable sighing.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
16Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
6But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
7And when praying, do not choose many words, as the pagans do. For they think that by their excess of words they might be heeded.
2Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving.
17Pray without ceasing.
3Cry out to me and I will heed you. And I will announce to you great things, things that are certain, though you do not know them.