What Does the Bible Say About Unanswered Prayer?

Psalm 22:2

“God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer...”

Job 30:20

“I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.”

Psalm 66:20

“Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!”

Isaiah 59:2

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

1 John 5:14

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”

Matthew 7:7

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

James 4:3

“When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”