Bible verses by topic / Prayer
Give us today our daily bread.
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.
After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of the king.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place.
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
For I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
I will strengthen Judah and save the tribes of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.’