20 Bible Verses about

Prayer During Difficult Times

Philippians 1:4 BSB

In every prayer for all of you, I always pray with joy,

Luke 6:12 BSB

In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

James 5:16 BSB

Therefore 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.

Ephesians 6:18 BSB

Pray 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.

Matthew 21:22 BSB

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Romans 12:12 BSB

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

Jeremiah 11:14 BSB

As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.

Nehemiah 1:11 BSB

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

Nehemiah 1:6 BSB

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Psalm 25:18 BSB

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Mark 11:24 BSB

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Job 42:8 BSB

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

Luke 5:16 BSB

Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

Luke 6:28 BSB

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Philippians 4:6 BSB

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Matthew 7:7 BSB

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 6:6 BSB

But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Jeremiah 33:3 BSB

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Colossians 4:2 BSB

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,

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