5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.

Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble."

And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, "Save me, for you [are] my god!"

Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols} and pray to a god who cannot save.

And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the {contents} that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And [meanwhile] Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep.