James 1:7

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Let that person not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

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  • Jas 4:3 : 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable, even more when it is brought with evil intent.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 58:3-4 : 3 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' Yet on the day of your fasting, you pursue your own desires and oppress all your workers. 4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

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    4Let perseverance complete its work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

    5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without rebuke, and it will be given to him.

    6But let him ask in faith, without doubting, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

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    8Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all their ways.

  • Jas 1:12-13
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    12Blessed is the one who endures trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

    13Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God,' for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if anyone thinks they are something when they are nothing, they deceive themselves.

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    2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

    3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

  • Jas 1:20
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    20For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

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    27John replied, 'No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.'

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    16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.

    17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

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    1Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

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    5This is what the LORD says: Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

    6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

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    12So then, let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

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    22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

    23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror.

    24For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like.

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    7Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

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    7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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    22If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.'

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