Bible Verses about “asking in prayer”
The Bible contains 14 verses about asking in prayer across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
“¶ ‹Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:›”
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”
“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”
“‹Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive› [them], ‹and ye shall have› [them].”
“‹And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.›”
“Pray without ceasing.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.”
“¶ And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:”
“‹And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.›”
“And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”
“‹Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.›”