Bible Verses About Persistence in Prayer

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Pray without ceasing.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”