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⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

³³Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.

⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.

²You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me.

¹And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. ²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, ⁴traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, ⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them. ⁶For among these are ones who penetrate houses and lead away, like captives, foolish women burdened with sins, who are led away by means of various desires,

¹¹The rich have been needy and hungry, but those who seek the Lord will not be deprived of any good thing.

⁵Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”

²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

⁵May he grant to you according to your heart, and confirm all your counsels.

²⁴For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.

³You have granted him the desire of his heart, and you have not cheated him of the wish of his lips.

¹⁴And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us. ¹⁵And we know that he hears us, no matter what we request; so we know that we can obtain the things that we request of him.

¹⁹And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

³The Lord will not afflict with famine the soul of the just, and he will overthrow the treacheries of the impious.

¹¹I am not saying this as if out of need. For I have learned that, in whatever state I am, it is sufficient. ¹²I know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound. I am prepared for anything, anywhere: either to be full or to be hungry, either to have abundance or to endure scarcity. ¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

²⁴What the impious fear will overwhelm them. The just shall be given their desire.

¹⁵So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses.”