And the Lord said to Solomon: "Since you have requested this word, and you have not asked for many days or for wealth for yourself, nor for the lives of your enemies, but instead you have requested for yourself wisdom in order to discern judgment:
James 4:3 - Catholic Public Domain Version You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures. American Standard Version (1901) Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. Common English Bible You ask and don’t have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences. English Standard Version 2016 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. |
And the Lord said to Solomon: "Since you have requested this word, and you have not asked for many days or for wealth for yourself, nor for the lives of your enemies, but instead you have requested for yourself wisdom in order to discern judgment:
There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.
then they will call to me, and I will not heed, they will arise in the morning, and not find me.
The sacrifices of the impious are abominable to the Lord. The vows of the just are appeasing.
Whoever blocks his ears to the outcry of the poor shall also cry out himself, and he will not be heeded.
The sacrifices of the impious are abominable, because they are offered out of wickedness.
For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will lead evils over them, from which they will not be able to escape. And they will cry out to me, and I will not heed them.
Therefore, you should not choose to pray for this people, and you should not take up praise and petitioning on their behalf. For I will not heed them in the time of their outcry to me, in the time of their affliction.
When they will fast, I will not heed their petitions. And if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not accept them. For I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence."
Then they will cry out to the Lord, and he will not heed them. And he will hide his face from them in that time, just as they have acted wickedly with their inventions.
And it happened, just as he had spoken, and they did not pay attention. So then, they shall cry out, and I will not heed, says the Lord of hosts.
But Jesus, responding, said: "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the chalice, from which I will drink?" They said to him, "We are able."
But Jesus said to them: "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the chalice from which I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?"
For everyone who asks, receives. And whoever seeks, finds. And whoever knocks, it shall be opened to him.
And after not many days, the younger son, gathering it all together, set out on a long journey to a distant region. And there, he dissipated his substance, living in luxury.
Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.'
Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
and whatever we shall request of him, we shall receive from him. For we keep his commandments, and we do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us.