15 Bible Verses about Prayerlessness
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And rising up from prayer, he came to his disciples,
And he cometh to the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith to Peter, What! Could ye not watch with me one hour?
And he cometh and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou?
And he came and found them asleep again; for their eyes were weighed down. And leaving them, he went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then cometh he to his disciples and saith to them, Sleep on now and take your rest: Behold the hour is come, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
he found them asleep again (for their eyes were heavy) and they knew not what to answer him. And he cometh the third time and saith to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come: behold the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
In like manner, ye husbands, dwell according to knowledge with the woman, as the weaker vessel; giving them honour, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and is withered: and they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Then he began to curse and to swear, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou meanest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
Peter denied again, and immediately the cock crew.
Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can ye, unless ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, he beareth much fruit; but, separate from me, ye can do nothing.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members? Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.read more.
Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whosoever therefore desireth to be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.