James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
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- 1 John 5:14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:
- 1 John 3:22 and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
- James 1:6–7 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;