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What Does the Bible Say About Asking in Prayer?

Here are 12 Bible verses about Asking in Prayer, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Matthew 21:22

    And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

    BSBIf you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

  2. #21 John 5:14

    And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

    BSBAnd this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

  3. #3John 14:13

    And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

    BSBAnd I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

  4. #4Matthew 7:7

    Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

    BSBAsk, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

  5. #5James 4:3

    Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

    BSBAnd when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

  6. #6Mark 11:24

    Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

    BSBTherefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

  7. #7John 16:24

    Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

    BSBUntil now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

  8. #8James 5:16

    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.

    BSBTherefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

  9. #91 Thessalonians 5:17

    Pray without ceasing.

  10. #101 John 5:14-15

    And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

    BSBAnd this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

  11. #111 John 1:9

    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    BSBIf we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  12. #12James 1:6-8

    But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

    BSBBut he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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