Bible Verses about Answered Prayers

Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Answered Prayers? Discover the top Bible verses about Answered Prayers from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Answered Prayers to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
9 If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.
Isaiah 1:17
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!
16 Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
John 15:7
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
Philippians 4:6
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
I'm Sorry - James 5:16
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Hebrews 11:6
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Your Daily Verse - 1 John 5:14
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Your Daily Verse - 1 John 5:14
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
2 Chronicles 7:14
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
James 1:5 - Wisdom
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”
15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
Seek the Lord
11 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
Your Daily Verse - Romans 12:2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,
24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
1 Peter 3:12
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.
10 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah.