James 4:3
you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.
Matthew 6:7
When you pray, be not verbose, as the heathen are: for they think they shall be heard for their loquaciousness.
Matthew 20:21-22
and he said to her, what would you have? grant, said she, when you are upon the throne, that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left.
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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Matthew 6:7
When you pray, be not verbose, as the heathen are: for they think they shall be heard for their loquaciousness.
Matthew 20:21
and he said to her, what would you have? grant, said she, when you are upon the throne, that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left.
James 4:3
you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.