Bible Verses About Prayer: With importunity

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?