James 4:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Cross References

1 John 5:14

This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask  anything according to his will, he hears us.

1 John 3:22

and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands  and do what is pleasing in his sight.

James 4:1

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions  that wage war within you?

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out  to the  Lord, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.

Proverbs 15:8

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

Proverbs 21:13

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.

Job 35:12

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

Zechariah 7:13

Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies.

Luke 15:13

Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and travelled to a distant country, where he squandered   his estate in foolish living.

Mark 10:38

Jesus said to them, ‘You don’t know what you’re asking.   Are you able to drink the cup   I drink or to be baptised with the baptism   I am baptised with? ’

Matthew 20:22

Jesus answered, ‘You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? ’   , ‘We are able,’ they said to him.

Jeremiah 11:14

‘As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf,  for I will not be listening when they call out to me at the time of their disaster.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable  – how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.’

Jeremiah 11:11

‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape.  They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets   with prostitutes,   you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.”

1 Kings 3:11

So God said to him, ‘Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life  or riches for yourself,  or the death  of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to administer justice,

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.