When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures — even when the believers ask, they ask 'wrongly' (kakoō, with bad intent/motive). Their requests are oriented toward spending (dapanaō) on their own hēdonē (desires/pleasures), showing that their praying is fundamentally self-directed rather than God-directed. The prayer itself becomes corrupted by the very self-centeredness it should overcome.

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