James 4:3
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
Matthew 6:7
But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Matthew 20:21-22
He said to her: What do you wish? She said to him: Command that these two sons of mine may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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Matthew 6:7
But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Matthew 20:21
He said to her: What do you wish? She said to him: Command that these two sons of mine may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
James 4:3
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.