And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong— you want only what will give you pleasure.

你们求也得不着，是因为你们妄求，要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

你们求也得不着，是因为你们妄求，为了要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

你们求也得不着，是因为你们妄求，为了要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

你们求也得不到是因为你们动机不纯，只求享乐和满足自己的欲望。

你们求也得不到，因为你们的动机不良，要把所得的耗费在你们的私欲上。

你们求也不能得到，是因为你们求的动机不对，为了要花费在自己的私欲上。

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，為了要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，為了要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也得不到是因為你們動機不純，只求享樂和滿足自己的慾望。

你們求也得不到，因為你們的動機不良，要把所得的耗費在你們的私慾上。

你們求而無所得，因為你們妄求，要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也不能得到，是因為你們求的動機不對，為了要花費在自己的私慾上。

爾求而不得、以爾妄求、欲用之於爾慾也、

爾求而不得、妄求從欲故也、

爾求而不得、因爾妄求、欲以所求者、縱爾之慾、

求而不得者、以爾求之不以其道、蓋爾所求者、徒為縱情恣慾而已

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

When you do ask for something, you don’t receive it. That’s because you ask for the wrong reason. You want to spend your money on your sinful pleasures.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume[ it] upon your lusts.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.

But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

Then you beg the Lord for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to answer? After all the evil you have done, he won’t even look at you!”

If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.But God did listen! He paid attention to my prayer.

But Jesus said to them,“ You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism of suffering I must be baptized with?”

They called for help, but no one came to their rescue. They even cried to the Lord, but he refused to answer.

For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them?Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?

“ Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.

When they fast, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease.”

Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need.

“ Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me in distress.

When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.

“ When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.

But Jesus answered by saying to them,“ You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?”“ Oh yes,” they replied,“ we are able!”

The sacrifice of an evil person is detestable, especially when it is offered with wrong motives.

And when they cry out, God does not answer because of their pride.

“ A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.

Jesus told this story to his disciples:“ There was a certain rich man who had a manager handling his affairs. One day a report came that the manager was wasting his employer’s money.So the employer called him in and said,‘ What’s this I hear about you? Get your report in order, because you are going to be fired.’

Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’