19 Bible Verses about Saying Repeatedly

"But [when you] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.

He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend.

And there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary!'

For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not permitted for you to have your brother's wife."

So they kept on saying, "What is this that he is saying, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what he is speaking about!"

And it happened [that] as she spoke to Joseph {day after day}, he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her.

"From [the] thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even up to this day, these twenty-three years the word of Yahweh has come to me, and {I have spoken to you over and over again}, but you have not listened.

"The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendants to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor. But {I have spoken to you over and over again}, and you have not listened to me.

And they have turned to me [their] backs and not [their] faces, though {I have taught them over and over again}, but they [were] not listening to accept discipline.

And leaving them again, he went away [and] prayed for the third [time], saying the same thing again.

And again he went away [and] prayed, saying the same thing.

And [he] approached the second [and] said the same [thing]. So he answered [and] said, 'I [will], sir,' and he did not go.

And the disciples were astounded at his words. But Jesus answered [and] said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God!

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same [things] to you [is] not troublesome to me, but [is] a safeguard for you.

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said} while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled} to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love}, and one who relents concerning calamity.

Now [when they] heard about the resurrection of the dead, [some] scoffed, but [others] said, "We will hear you about this again also."

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

He multiplied [the] ones stumbling. Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor, and said, 'Stand up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, {because of} the {presence} of the sword of the oppressor.'

And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and {knelt down} [and] began to pray,