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19 Bible Verses About Answered Prayer, Including Prayers Not Answered as Asked

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Summary

  • In Gethsemane Jesus asked for the cup to pass from him, and it did not (Matthew 26:39).
  • Matthew 7:7-8 keeps its verbs in a continuous tense — keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking — so the promise is to persistence.
  • 1 John 5:14 supplies the qualifier the subject turns on: according to his will.
  • Bartimaeus was blind, and Jesus still asked him to say what he wanted (Mark 10:51).
  • Paul asked three times and was refused, and he calls what he received an answer.

The Bible promises that God hears and answers prayer, and it also records prayers that were not granted as asked. Jesus said, “Ask, and it will be given to you” (Matthew 7:7), and in Gethsemane he asked for the cup to pass from him, and it did not (Matthew 26:39). Paul asked three times for his thorn to be removed and was refused. The nineteen verses below cover the promises, the conditions their own writers attach, prayers recorded as answered,…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The imperatives of Matthew 7:7 are present continuous in the Greek: keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking.

Hannah’s prayer, mistaken for drunkenness, is at 1 Samuel 1:12-16; the sentence quoted here comes after Samuel’s birth and weaning.

Jeremiah 29:12-13 sits in the letter that begins at Jeremiah 29:4, with the seventy years at verse 10.

The invitation around Isaiah 55:8-9 begins at Isaiah 55:1.

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