James 4:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ [Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Common English Bible

³ You ask and don’t have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

James 4:3 Referencias Cruzadas

1 Kings 3:11

God said to him, “Because you have asked this and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or for the life of your enemies but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,

Job 35:12

There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, assuredly I am going to bring disaster upon them that they cannot escape; though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them, but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.

Zechariah 7:13

Just as, when I called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Luke 15:13

A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

James 4:1

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

1 John 3:22

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.

1 John 5:14

And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.