James 4:3
you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.
Matthew 6:7
Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;
Matthew 20:21-22
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."
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Summary
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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Matthew 6:7
Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;
Matthew 20:21
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."
James 4:3
you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.