I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
Without wrath and disputing ...  Hervey speaks of a number of instances cited by Chrysostom in which angry and vindictive prayers were offered to God against personal enemies with such expressions as "so do to him ... smite him ... recompense him, etc."[17] As Chrysostom said of such prayers, "Do you pray against your brother?  Your prayer is not against him, but against yourself."[18] Certainly, all who approach God in prayer should do so with humble and contrite hearts, conscious of such sins and shortcomings as mar every soul in the sight of God.