James 4:3
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
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- 1 John 5:14
"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:"
Read in chapter → - 1 John 3:22
"And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight."
Read in chapter → - James 1:6
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."
Read in chapter → - James 4:1
"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 15:8
"The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight."
Read in chapter → - Micah 3:4
"Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 66:18
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:"
Read in chapter → - Job 35:12
"There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 7:13
"Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:"
Read in chapter → - Job 27:8
"For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?"
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