8 Bible Verses About When You Pray
8 Bible verses about When You Pray to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
But when you pray, go into an inner room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is there in secret. Your Father sees what is hidden, and he will repay you.
When you pray, do not keep piling up empty words as the pagans do. They think they will be heard because they say so much.
So this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven. Give us today the bread we need. Forgive us what we owe you, as we too have forgiven those who owe us. And do not lead us into testing, but rescue us from the evil one.’
Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart.
Long before daylight, he got up and went out. He went off to a lonely place and spent time there in prayer.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. They love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners where others can see them. Truly I tell you, they have been paid in full.
So do not imitate them. Your Father already knows what you need before you ask him.
Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he had finished, one of his disciples asked him, “Lord, teach us how to pray, the way John taught his own disciples.”