Prayer Verses
Powerful verses on communicating with God and the importance of prayer in the believer's life.
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou {wilt}.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed {is} willing, but the flesh {is} weak.
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.