Every believer desires to see family members, friends, neighbors, and loved ones come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
This collection of prayer for someone’s salvation is rooted in Scripture to help you intercede for those who have not yet placed their faith in Jesus Christ.
Prayer For Someone’s Salvation
1. 1 Timothy 2:3–4 (ESV)
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Heavenly Father, draw my loved one to the truth of Jesus Christ and lead them to salvation.
God graciously desires people to know His truth and receive the gift of eternal life through Christ.
His mercy strengthens hope, renews faith, encourages persistent prayer, deepens trust, and reminds believers of His saving love.
2. John 3:16 (ESV)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Lord, help my loved one understand the depth of Your love revealed through Jesus Christ.
God demonstrated His perfect love by sending His Son to provide salvation for all who believe.
His love strengthens compassion, renews hope, encourages faith, deepens trust, and reveals His gracious invitation to salvation.
3. Romans 10:9–10 (ESV)
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Father, prepare my loved one’s heart to believe in Christ and confess Him as Lord.
Salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ and wholehearted trust in His saving work.
His grace strengthens hope, renews confidence, encourages faithful witness, deepens trust, and glorifies His redeeming power.
4. Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV)
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.
Lord, replace every hardened heart with one that gladly responds to Your truth.
God alone transforms hearts through His Spirit, bringing genuine repentance and new spiritual life.
His power strengthens faith, renews hope, encourages transformation, deepens trust, and reveals His abundant mercy.
5. Acts 16:31 (ESV)
Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…
Father, lead my loved one to place complete faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation.
The gospel invites everyone to trust Christ as the only Savior and Lord.
His grace strengthens confidence, renews hope, encourages belief, deepens faith, and offers eternal life through Christ.
6. 2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise… not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Lord, patiently continue Your work until my loved one turns to You in repentance.
God’s patience demonstrates His mercy by giving people opportunities to respond to the gospel.
His compassion strengthens perseverance, renews hope, encourages faithful prayer, deepens trust, and magnifies His gracious character.
7. Romans 1:16 (ESV)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.
Father, give me boldness to share the gospel with love, wisdom, and humility.
The gospel is God’s powerful message that brings salvation to all who believe in Jesus Christ.
His truth strengthens courage, renews purpose, encourages faithful witness, deepens trust, and advances His kingdom.
8. John 6:44 (ESV)
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.
Lord, draw my loved one to Christ through the work of Your Holy Spirit.
God graciously calls people to Himself through His sovereign work and faithful Word.
His Spirit strengthens hope, renews faith, encourages prayer, deepens trust, and reveals Christ to searching hearts.
9. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
Father, transform my loved one’s life through the saving grace found in Christ.
God makes believers new creations through His mercy, forgiveness, and redeeming power.
His grace strengthens hope, renews purpose, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and produces lasting spiritual transformation.
10. Isaiah 55:6 (ESV)
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.
Lord, awaken my loved one’s heart to seek You while Your invitation remains open.
God graciously invites people to seek Him with sincere hearts and receive His forgiveness.
His mercy strengthens conviction, renews hope, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and reveals His unfailing love.
11. Acts 4:12 (ESV)
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Father, reveal to my loved one that Jesus Christ alone is the Savior of the world.
God has provided only one way of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
His truth strengthens conviction, renews hope, encourages faith, deepens trust, and points hearts toward eternal life.
12. Romans 5:8 (ESV)
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Lord, help my loved one understand the depth of Your sacrificial love through Christ.
God demonstrated His perfect love by sending Jesus to die for undeserving sinners everywhere.
His love strengthens hope, renews gratitude, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and reveals His abundant mercy.
13. Titus 3:5 (ESV)
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy.
Father, teach my loved one that salvation is received by Your mercy, not human effort.
God saves sinners through His mercy rather than through personal achievements or religious works.
His grace strengthens humility, renews faith, encourages dependence, deepens trust, and magnifies His saving power.
14. Ephesians 2:8 and 9 (ESV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith… it is the gift of God.
Lord, help my loved one receive the free gift of salvation through faith in Christ.
Salvation is God’s gracious gift offered freely to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ.
His grace strengthens confidence, renews hope, encourages belief, deepens trust, and glorifies His redeeming love.
15. Luke 15:10 (ESV)
There is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Father, bring my loved one to genuine repentance and joyful faith in Christ today.
Heaven rejoices whenever one sinner turns from sin and trusts completely in the Savior.
His mercy strengthens hope, renews joy, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and celebrates God’s redeeming grace.
16. Hebrews 4:16 (ESV)
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace…
Lord, give my loved one confidence to come before You and receive Your mercy.
God welcomes all who sincerely seek His grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
His compassion strengthens courage, renews hope, encourages faith, deepens trust, and offers abundant forgiveness.
17. Isaiah 1:18 (ESV)
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Father, cleanse my loved one completely through the forgiving blood of Jesus Christ.
God promises complete forgiveness to those who sincerely repent and trust in His mercy.
His forgiveness strengthens peace, renews hope, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and restores broken lives.
18. 2 Corinthians 4:4 and 6 (ESV)
…God… has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Lord, remove every spiritual blindness and reveal Christ clearly to my loved one.
God alone opens blinded hearts to understand the truth and glory of Jesus Christ.
His light strengthens understanding, renews hope, encourages faith, deepens trust, and leads souls toward salvation.
19. Philippians 2:10 and 11 (ESV)
…every knee should bow… and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Father, lead my loved one to willingly confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Every person will ultimately recognize Christ’s authority, but God graciously invites faith today.
His truth strengthens conviction, renews purpose, encourages surrender, deepens trust, and exalts the name of Jesus.
20. Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Lord, create a clean heart within my loved one through the work of Your Spirit.
God transforms lives by renewing hearts that sincerely turn toward Him in faith.
His Spirit strengthens holiness, renews hope, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and produces lasting transformation.
21. John 14:6 (ESV)
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Father, reveal Jesus as the only way to eternal life for my loved one.
Christ alone reconciles sinners to God through His death and victorious resurrection.
His truth strengthens faith, renews confidence, encourages belief, deepens trust, and leads souls into eternal life.
22. Colossians 1:13 and 14 (ESV)
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
Lord, rescue my loved one from darkness and bring them into Christ’s glorious kingdom.
God delivers believers from spiritual darkness through the redeeming work of His beloved Son.
His power strengthens hope, renews freedom, encourages faith, deepens trust, and transforms lives forever.
23. James 5:20 (ESV)
Whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death.
Father, use faithful believers to lovingly point my loved one toward Jesus Christ.
God often works through caring witnesses to share His truth with those who are wandering.
His wisdom strengthens compassion, renews courage, encourages faithful witness, deepens trust, and glorifies His saving grace.
24. Matthew 9:37 and 38 (ESV)
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…
Lord, raise faithful workers who will lovingly share the gospel with my loved one.
God calls His people to faithfully proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ everywhere.
His Spirit strengthens boldness, renews compassion, encourages evangelism, deepens trust, and advances His kingdom.
25. Psalm 86:5 (ESV)
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Father, help my loved one experience Your abundant forgiveness and steadfast love through Christ.
God delights in forgiving all who sincerely call upon Him with believing hearts.
His mercy strengthens hope, renews peace, encourages repentance, deepens trust, and reveals His gracious character.
26. Galatians 2:20 (ESV)
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
Lord, transform my loved one’s life through the power of Christ living within them.
Following Christ brings a completely new identity shaped by His grace and truth.
His presence strengthens character, renews purpose, encourages obedience, deepens trust, and produces spiritual growth.
27. Revelation 3:20 (ESV)
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door…
Father, help my loved one respond willingly to Your gracious invitation today.
God patiently invites people into fellowship with Him through faith in Jesus Christ.
His love strengthens hope, renews faith, encourages surrender, deepens trust, and welcomes every sincere seeker.
28. 1 John 5:11 and 12 (ESV)
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Lord, help my loved one receive the eternal life found only in Jesus Christ.
Eternal life is God’s gracious gift to everyone who believes in His Son.
His promises strengthen assurance, renew hope, encourage faith, deepen trust, and point hearts toward everlasting life.
29. Romans 8:1 (ESV)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Father, let my loved one experience the freedom and forgiveness found in Christ.
Jesus completely removes condemnation from those who trust Him as Savior and Lord.
His grace strengthens peace, renews joy, encourages faith, deepens trust, and brings lasting spiritual freedom.
30. Jude 1:24 and 25 (ESV)
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling… to the only God, our Savior… be glory…
Lord, save my loved one and keep them faithful throughout their walk with You.
God faithfully preserves those who belong to Him through His power and everlasting grace.
His faithfulness strengthens confidence, renews hope, encourages perseverance, deepens trust, and brings glory to His holy name.
Conclusion
Praying a prayer for someone’s salvation is one of the greatest acts of love you can offer another person.
Continue praying with faith, patience, and love for those who have not yet trusted in Jesus Christ.