² You desire but do not have, so you kill.^(A) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. ³ When you ask, you do not receive,^(B) because you ask with wrong motives,^(C) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

⁷ The end of all things is near.^(A) Therefore be alert and of sober mind^(B) so that you may pray.

¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know^(A) that we have what we asked of him.^(B)

⁸ And when he had taken it, the four living creatures^(A) and the twenty-four elders^(B) fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp^(C) and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers^(D) of God’s people.