10 Bible Verses About Persistence in Prayer

So I tell you: ask, and God will give to you; search, and you will find; knock, and God will open the door for you. For all who ask receive, all who search find, and all who knock have the door opened to them.

Keep on praying, and stay alert as you pray, giving thanks.

Let your hope keep you rejoicing; hold out under trouble; keep at prayer.

Then surely God will give justice to the people he has chosen, when they call out to him day and night. Will he be slow to help them?

I tell you, even if friendship is not enough to get him out of bed to give you the bread, your boldness in asking without shame will get him up, and he will give you as much as you need.

Pray in the Spirit at every opportunity, with every kind of prayer and request. To that end, keep watch, never giving up, and make requests for all God’s holy people.

Never stop praying.

Still, this widow is such a nuisance that I will give her justice. If I do not, she will keep coming until she wears me out.’”

“Let me go,” said the man, “for the dawn is coming up.” Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”