But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind.

If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord.

What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?

They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.

They cry for help, but God doesn't answer, for they are proud and evil.

They cry for help, but no one saves them; they call to the LORD, but he does not answer.

If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.

But God has indeed heard me; he has listened to my prayer.

Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.

The LORD is pleased when good people pray, but hates the sacrifices that the wicked bring him.

If you refuse to listen to the cry of the poor, your own cry for help will not be heard.

The LORD hates it when wicked people offer him sacrifices, especially if they do it from evil motives.

"When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.

Wash yourselves clean. Stop all this evil that I see you doing. Yes, stop doing evil

So now I, the LORD, warn them that I am going to bring destruction on them, and they will not escape. And when they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah, don't pray to me or plead with me on behalf of these people. When they are in trouble and call to me for help, I will not listen to them."

Even if they fast, I will not listen to their cry for help; and even if they offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not be pleased with them. Instead, I will kill them in war and by starvation and disease."

The time is coming when you will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.

Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed.

"You don't know what you are asking for," Jesus answered the sons. "Can you drink the cup of suffering that I am about to drink?" "We can," they answered.

Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup of suffering that I must drink? Can you be baptized in the way I must be baptized?"

We receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

We have courage in God's presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will.

After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.

But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back home, you kill the prize calf for him!'

Jesus said to his disciples, "There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the manager was wasting his master's money,

so he called him in and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.'

Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.