James 4:3
You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
Matthew 6:7
And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough.
Matthew 20:21-22
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine sit one at your right and one at your left, when you are king!"
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Summary
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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Matthew 6:7
And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough.
Matthew 20:21
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine sit one at your right and one at your left, when you are king!"
James 4:3
You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.