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

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

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

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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 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 “‘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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13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth(A) in wild living.

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38 “You don’t know what you are asking,”(A) Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup(B) I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”(C)

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22 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup(A) I am going to drink?”

“We can,” they answered.

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14 “Do not pray(A) for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen(B) when they call to me in the time of their distress.

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27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable(A)
    how much more so when brought with evil intent!(B)

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28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer;(A)
    they will look for me but will not find me,(B)

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41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them(A)
    to the Lord, but he did not answer.(B)

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12 Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry;(A) though they offer burnt offerings(B) and grain offerings,(C) I will not accept(D) them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword,(E) famine(F) and plague.”(G)

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11 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster(A) they cannot escape.(B) Although they cry(C) out to me, I will not listen(D) to them.

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15 When you spread out your hands(A) in prayer,
    I hide(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.(C)

Your hands(D) are full of blood!(E)

16 Wash(F) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(G)
    stop doing wrong.(H)

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30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property(A) with prostitutes(B) comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

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