Prayer, Answers To

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 66:20 OT

  Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.

• Psalms 116:17 OT

  I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.

• Psalms 118:21 OT

  I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

• Psalms 116:2 OT

  Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

• James 4:3 NT

  You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

• Psalms 66:18 OT

  If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

• Isaiah 59:2 OT

  But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

• John 9:31 NT

  We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

• Malachi 1:7-9 OT

  You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’ When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil?…

• Jeremiah 14:10 OT

  Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”

• Jeremiah 14:12 OT

  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

• Proverbs 1:24 OT

  Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

• Proverbs 1:25 OT

  but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

• Proverbs 1:28 OT

  Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

• Proverbs 28:9 OT

  He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

• Zechariah 7:11-13 OT

  But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit…

• Proverbs 21:13 OT

  Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

• Isaiah 1:15 OT

  When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

• Isaiah 59:3 OT

  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

• Jeremiah 11:11-14 OT

  Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them. Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods…

• Ezekiel 8:15-18 OT

  Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.” He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar,…

• James 1:6 NT

  But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

• James 1:7 NT

  For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

• Job 27:8 OT

  For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?