Bible Verses About Prayer: With importunity

and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'

`I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,

saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city--God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding--

and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,

and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:

and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night--bearing long in regard to them?