Bible Verses About Prayer

and if a fish he may ask--a serpent will he present to him?

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,

and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, `Deal kindly with me, Sir--Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.'

And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying--`Let her away, because she crieth after us;'

and he answering said, `I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, `Sir, help me;'

and he answering said, `It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'

And she said, `Yes, sir, for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;'

then answering, Jesus said to her, `O woman, great is thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;' and her daughter was healed from that hour.

and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

`Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask--it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, `Take, eat, this is my body;'

and having taken the cup, and having given thanks, he gave to them, saying, `Drink ye of it--all;

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves, and was giving to his disciples, that they may set before them, and the two fishes divided he to all,

for a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet, --

and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phenician by nation--and was asking him, that the demon he may cast forth out of her daughter.

And Jesus said to her, `Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.'

And she answered and saith to him, `Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children's crumbs.'

And he said to her, `Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;'

And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground, and having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, he brake, and was giving to his disciples that they may set before them ; and they did set before the multitude.

And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed, he said to set them also before them ;