4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

We know that God never listens to bad men, but, when a man is god-fearing and does God's will, God listens to him.

But let him ask with confidence, never doubting; for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven hither and thither at the mercy of the wind-- Such a man must not expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way--'O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men-- thieves, rogues, adulterers--or even like this tax-gatherer. I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.'