Bible Verses about “unanswered prayer”
The Bible contains 21 verses about unanswered prayer across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
“"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.”
“He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.”
“But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.”
“Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.”
“If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”
“For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.”
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
“Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?”
“Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?”
“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."”
“This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.”
“All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."”
“And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.”
“We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.”
“Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.”
“By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.”
“but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.”
“He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.”
“If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.”