James 4:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 2 There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

James 4:3 Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

6 Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him:

Job 35:12

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee : for I have yet somewhat to speak in God's behalf.

Psalm 18:41

8 And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

Proverbs 1:28

That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:

Proverbs 15:8

5 All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.

Proverbs 21:13

0 There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.

Proverbs 21:27

The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

Jeremiah 11:11

9 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 11:14

2 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon them: and their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 14:12

0 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Micah 3:4

2 Therefore, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.

Zechariah 7:13

Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.

Matthew 20:22

0 And behold two blind men sitting by the way side, heard that Jesus passed by, and they cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us.

Mark 10:38

6 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho, with his disciples, and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by the way side begging.

Luke 11:10

8 And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say, that through Beelzebub I cast out devils.

Luke 15:13

1 And the son said to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, I am not now worthy to be called thy son.

Luke 15:30

But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

James 4:1

0 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

1 John 3:22

Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

1 John 5:14

For the sake of the truth which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.