19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Therefore do not pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

Therefore do not pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble."

The LORD said to me, "Do not pray for this people for their good.

All the administrators of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree. "Haven't you signed a decree, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered, "The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed."

therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of the LORD.' I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering."

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

"I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me. I was near to those who did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am. Here I am.' to a nation that did not call on my name.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you; on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the families that do not call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation."

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.

They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.