Bible Verses About Prayer
This collection includes 10 passages about Prayer. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Reading context: Jesus introduces a pattern of prayer by addressing the Father, contrasting it with performance and empty repetition.
Scripture Passages
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Reading context: The prayer continues with God’s kingdom and will; keep this with the full prayer.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Reading context: The prayer includes daily needs alongside forgiveness and deliverance in the following verses.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Pray without ceasing.
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.
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.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
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The Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6 provides a pattern, while the letters include encouragement to continue in prayer. Read the pattern and the surrounding teaching together. These passages are not a formula for obtaining a particular answer. The quotation labels identify the Bible version. Use a reference link to read its chapter and compare the wording with the commentary.
Read the surrounding passage
Read Matthew 6:9–13 with Jesus’ preceding teaching about public display and repeated words. The passage addresses how to pray, not a technique for controlling outcomes.
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