Let's not forget:

Psalms 66:18 (ASV) "If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:"

Proverbs 28:9 (ASV) "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination."

Isaiah 1:15 (ASV) "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."

John 9:31 (ASV) "We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth."

James 4:3 (ASV) "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures."

AND

1 John 5:14-15 (ASV) "And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him."


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