You ask and do not receive, because you ask (A)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

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When you ask, you do not receive,(A) because you ask with wrong motives,(B) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

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14 And this is (A)the confidence that we have toward him, that (B)if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

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14 This is the confidence(A) we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.(B)

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22 and (A)whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and (B)do what pleases him.

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22 and receive from him anything we ask,(A) because we keep his commands(B) and do what pleases him.(C)

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But (A)let him ask in faith, (B)with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like (C)a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

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But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt,(A) because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

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Warning Against Worldliness

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are (A)at war within you?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:1 Greek pleasures; also verse 3
  2. James 4:1 Greek in your members

Submit Yourselves to God

What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you?

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(A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
    but (B)the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

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The Lord detests the sacrifice(A) of the wicked,(B)
    but the prayer of the upright pleases him.(C)

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(A)Then they will cry to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them;
(B)he will hide his face from them at that time,
    because they have made their deeds evil.

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Then they will cry out to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them.(A)
At that time he will hide his face(B) from them
    because of the evil they have done.(C)

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18 If I had (A)cherished iniquity in my heart,
    (B)the Lord would not have listened.
19 But truly (C)God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

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18 If I had cherished sin in my heart,
    the Lord would not have listened;(A)
19 but God has surely listened
    and has heard(B) my prayer.

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13 (A)Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
    will himself call out and not be answered.

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13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor
    will also cry out(A) and not be answered.(B)

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12 There they (A)cry out, but he does not answer,
    because of the pride of evil men.

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12 He does not answer(A) when people cry out
    because of the arrogance(B) of the wicked.(C)

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(A)For what is the hope of the godless (B)when God cuts him off,
    when God takes away his life?
(C)Will God hear his cry
    when distress comes upon him?
10 Will he (D)take delight in the Almighty?
    Will he call upon God at all times?

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For what hope have the godless(A) when they are cut off,
    when God takes away their life?(B)
Does God listen to their cry
    when distress comes upon them?(C)
10 Will they find delight in the Almighty?(D)
    Will they call on God at all times?

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The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

16 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had (A)a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your (B)management, for you can no longer be manager.’

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The Parable of the Shrewd Manager

16 Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.(A) So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

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13 (A)“As I[a] called, and they would not hear, (B)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew he

13 “‘When I called, they did not listen;(A) so when they called, I would not listen,’(B) says the Lord Almighty.(C)

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