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What the Bible says about prayer

The 13 verses readers most often turn to for this topic, quoted in full from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Thess 5:17Pray without ceasing.
Phil 4:6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Jas 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
Jer 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Rom 8:26–27In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
John 14:14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.
Jas 1:5Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Jas 5:18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
1 John 5:14And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
Jas 5:13Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

These are the verses readers most often turn to for this topic — not a teaching on it. Read each in its chapter.

Sources

The verses of each topic and their order: OpenBible.info topical data, by readers’ votes: OpenBible.info · CC BY 4.0

Berean Standard Bible · Public domain