James 4:3

American King James Version (1999)

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life; neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies; but have asked for yourself understanding to discern judgment;

Job 35:12

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Psalm 18:41

They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.

Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall 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

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me for their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Micah 3:4

Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Zechariah 7:13

Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, said the LORD of hosts:

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, You know not what you ask: can you drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

Luke 11:10

For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

James 4:1

From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

1 John 3:22

And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: