Bible Verses About Prayer: Unclassified scriptures relating to prayer

and Ya'akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When he saw that he did not defeat Ya'akov, he struck Ya'akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him.

The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya'akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me."

The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya'akov."

Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya'akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed."

Seek ADONAI and his strength; always seek his presence.

Say: "Save us, God who can save us! Gather and rescue us from the nations; so that we can thank your holy name and glory in praising you.

then, if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.

However, we prayed to our God and, because of them, organized a watch against them day and night.

"My heart said of you, 'Seek my face.'"Your face, ADONAI, I will seek.

Glory in his holy name; let those seeking ADONAI have joyful hearts.

Seek ADONAI and his strength; always seek his presence.

ADONAI is close to all who call on him, to all who sincerely call on him.

ADONAI detests the sacrifices of the wicked but delights in the prayers of the upright.

Don't speak impulsively - don't be in a hurry to give voice to your words before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; so let your words be few.

Seek ADONAI while he is available, call on him while he is still nearby.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven and say,

Yes, he fought with an angel and won; he wept and pleaded with him. Then at Beit-El he found him, and there he would [later] speak with us

and I will pour out on the house of David and on those living in Yerushalayim a spirit of grace and prayer; and they will look to me, whom they pierced." They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son; they will be in bitterness on his behalf like the bitterness for a firstborn son.

"When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites, who love to pray standing in the synagogues and on street corners, so that people can see them. Yes! I tell you, they have their reward already!

But you, when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

"And when you pray, don't babble on and on like the pagans, who think God will hear them better if they talk a lot.

Don't be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

You, therefore, pray like this: `Our Father in heaven! May your Name be kept holy.

May your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.