James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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- 1 John 5:14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
- 1 John 3:22 so whatever we ask, we receive from 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, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.