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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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James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,

Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

Zechariah 7:13
It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

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