James 4:3

English Standard Version 2016

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Cross References

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

James 4:1

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Job 35:12

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

Zechariah 7:13

“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

Luke 15:13

Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.

Mark 10:38

Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

Matthew 20:22

Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Jeremiah 11:14

“Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Jeremiah 14:12

Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

1 Kings 3:11

And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,

Luke 11:10

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