Bible Verses About Intercessory Prayer
This collection includes 50 passages about Intercessory Prayer. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
Scripture Passages
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christβs stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
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