100 Bible Verses about Pharisee Prayed

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...

James 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Luke 18:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

Matthew 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Revelation 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Luke 18:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Luke 18:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Daniel 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray without ceasing,

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

John 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 9:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 18:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:10-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

Mark 11:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Mark 1:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Jeremiah 49:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 65:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

Revelation 8:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.

Revelation 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 2:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 5:13-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ...

James 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

Philippians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

Philippians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 8:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Romans 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Acts 20:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

Acts 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...

John 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

John 11:41-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”

John 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

John 5:39-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

John 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He was in the beginning with God.

Luke 20:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 18:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him,

Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Luke 18:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 18:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 11:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.” And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, ...

Luke 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

Luke 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,

Mark 12:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces

Mark 6:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.

Mark 6:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 23:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,

Matthew 18:23-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ...

Matthew 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 6:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Matthew 6:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Matthew 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.