When you lift your hands in prayer, I [Jehovah] will refuse to look at you: Yes, even if you offer an abundance of prayers I will not hear, for your hands are full of blood.
Isa. 1:15
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with an evil motive, to spend it on your own lusts.
James 4:3
… we know that God does not hear sinners, but He hears any man is a worshiper of God and does His will.
John 9:31
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