19 Bible Verses About Prayer: What Jesus Taught and How He Prayed



  • The Lord’s Prayer asks first for God’s name, kingdom and will, and its requests for ourselves are all in the plural.
  • Ask, seek and knock are present imperatives in Greek, often read as keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking.
  • Mark 11:25 attaches a condition about forgiving other people to the promise in the verse before it.
  • Jesus says the tax collector who prayed only “God, have mercy on me, a sinner” went home justified (Luke 18:13-14).
  • “Pray continually” uses the same Greek word Paul uses for his own thanks for the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 2:13).

The Bible teaches prayer mostly through Jesus: the prayer he gave his disciples, the way he prayed himself, and promises about asking that come with conditions attached. In Luke’s Gospel the Lord’s Prayer is his answer when a disciple asks, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). It asks first for God’s name to be kept holy, his kingdom to come and his will to be done, and only then for bread, forgiveness and protection. Its requests for ourselves are…

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