"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God.

"Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive [them,] and you will have [them.]

I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

But without faith [it is] impossible to please [Him,] for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and [that] He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father's bed; Then you defiled [it -- He] went up to my couch.

that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

Let us hold fast the confession of [our] hope without wavering, for He who promised [is] faithful.

Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For [it is] good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving [only] themselves. [They are] clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.