the importance of prayer
What does the Bible say about the importance of prayer? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
2Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving.
18The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.
17Pray without ceasing.
18Through every kind of prayer and supplication, pray at all times in spirit, and so be vigilant with every kind of earnest supplication, for all the saints,
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.
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.
12in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;
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.
1Now he also told them a parable, that we should continually pray and not cease,
13Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms.
42Now they were persevering in the doctrine of the Apostles, and in the communion of the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.