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Provérbios 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. (niv)
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Jeremias 11:11
Therefore this is what the Lord says:‘ I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. (niv)
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Isaías 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! (niv)
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Tiago 4:3
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (niv)
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Eclesiastes 5:1-3
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool. (niv)
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Provérbios 15:8
The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him. (niv)
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Mateus 6:7
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. (niv)
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Amós 5:22
Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. (niv)
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Jó 27:8-9
For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them? (niv)
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Mateus 20:21-22
“ What is it you want?” he asked. She said,“ Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”“ You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them.“ Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”“ We can,” they answered. (niv)
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Jó 30:20
“ I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me. (niv)
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Salmos 102:17
He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea. (niv)
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Oseias 7:14
They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me. (niv)
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Oseias 8:2-3
Israel cries out to me,‘ Our God, we acknowledge you!’But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him. (niv)
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Provérbios 28:9
If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable. (niv)
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Jó 22:22-27
Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tentand assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you.Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God.You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. (niv)