James 4:3

English Majority Text Version

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend it in gratifying your lusts.

Cross References

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" 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 which I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after, having gathered together all things, the younger son went on a journey to a distant country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fatted calf for him.'

James 4:1

From where come wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

1 John 3:22

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we should ask anything according to His will, He hears us.