32 Bible Verses about Prayerfulness

and she had been a widow eighty-four years, and departed not from the temple, serving God night and day with fastings and prayers.

But one that is a widow indeed and alone hopes in God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day;

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing. If any one continues not in me he is cast without as a branch, and is withered; and they collect them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you continue in me, and my words continue in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be [given] you.read more.
By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples.

And when you pray use not vain repetitions, as the gentiles do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.

who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. They shall receive a greater judgment.

who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; they shall receive a greater judgment.

Watch and pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Watch and pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but flesh is weak.

And arriving at the place, he said to them, Pray that you may not enter into trial.

But watch continually, praying that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to occur, and to stand before the Son of man.

Be constant in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

AND he spoke also a parable to them, that men ought to pray at all times, and not to faint;

But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them.

pray without ceasing,

But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and watch in prayers;

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months; and again he prayed, and heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded her fruit.

Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

And he withdrew into solitary places and prayed.

Then they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes above, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me; and I knew that thou hearest me always; but for the sake of the multitude who stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

All these continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.

And being dismissed they came to their friends, and related to them what the chief priests and elders said to them. And when they heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and all things in them, who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things?read more.
the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled together against the Lord, and against his anointed. For of a truth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou hast anointed, to do what thy hand and counsel before appointed to be done. And now, Lord, look down upon their threatenings, and grant to thy servants with all boldness to speak thy word, by stretching out thy hand, that cures and miracles and prodigies may be performed by the name of thy holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed the place was shaken in which they were assembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

but we will attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word.

Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

desiring exceedingly, night and day, to see your face, and to perfect what is lacking of your faith?

For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;

I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,