prayers of the unrighteous
What does the Bible say about prayers of the unrighteous? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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31And we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, then he heeds him.
9Whoever turns away his ears from listening to the law: his prayer will be detestable.
12For the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears are with their prayers, but the countenance of the Lord is upon those who do evil.
18If I have seen iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not heed me.
2But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.
29The Lord is distant from the impious. And he will heed the prayers of the just.
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.
3You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
4You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.