³ You ask and ^(A)do not receive, because you ask ^[a]with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request ^[b]on your pleasures.

^15 [a]Instead, you ought to say, “^(A)If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

¹⁴ This is ^(A)the confidence which we have ^[a]before Him, that, ^(B)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.