James 1:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ For that [doubting] person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord [through prayer],

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

Common English Bible

⁷ People like that should never imagine that they will receive anything from the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ then a man should not consider that he would receive anything from the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

James 1:7 Cross References

James 1:6

But he should ask in faith, without doubting, because the person who doubts [that he will receive wisdom] is like an ocean wave that is driven and tossed by the wind.

James 1:8

because he is double-minded and undecided in all that he does [i.e., he cannot make up his mind and follow through about anything].

James 4:3

[When] you do ask, you do not receive it, because you ask from wrong motives, [just] so you can satisfy your own pleasures.