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James 4:3
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

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Deuteronomy 1:45
And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.

Job 35:13
But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.

Isaiah 59:2
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

Ezekiel 8:18
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.

Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

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1 Kings 2:22
Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.

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1 Kings 3:11
And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

Job 27:10
Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

Psalms 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psalms 66:19
But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 102:17
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.

Proverbs 1:27
When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

Proverbs 10:24
The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

Jeremiah 29:11
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

Ezekiel 14:4
For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

Ezekiel 36:37
This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

Zechariah 13:9
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

James 5:16
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

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Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

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Psalms 78:18
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

Psalms 106:14
They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

Psalms 106:15
And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.

1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

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Matthew 15:8
These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

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Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

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Luke 11:9
And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

Luke 11:11
And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

Luke 11:12
Or for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Luke 11:13
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

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Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

Luke 15:14
And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.

Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

Luke 16:1
And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.

Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

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John 6:26
Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

Romans 16:18
For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

2 Peter 2:13
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

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Isaiah 45:19
I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

James 4:7
For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

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Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 11:13
And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.

1 Corinthians 3:3
Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

1 Corinthians 6:7
More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

James 3:15
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

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