James 4:3

Free Bible Version

You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

So God told him, “Because you asked for this, and you didn't ask for a long life, or wealth, or the death of your enemies, but instead you asked for understanding to know what is right,

Job 35:12

When they call out for help, God doesn't answer them because they are proud and evil people.

Psalm 18:41

They cried out for help, but no one came to rescue them. They even called out to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

then you'll call out to me for help, but I won't answer; you'll search hard for me, but won't find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord hates the sacrifices of the wicked, but he loves the prayers of the good.

Proverbs 21:13

If you refuse to hear the cries of the poor, your cries won't be heard either.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices given by the wicked are obnoxious, worse still when they're offered with evil motives.

Jeremiah 11:11

So this is what the Lord says: I'm going to bring upon them a disaster they won't be able to escape. They will cry out to me for help, but I won't listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Jeremiah, don't pray for these people. Don't cry for help or offer a prayer on their behalf, because I won't be listening when they cry out to me in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:12

Even if they fast, I won't listen to their cry. Even though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I won't accept them. On the contrary I will wipe them out by sword and famine and plague.

Micah 3:4

Then they'll cry out to the Lord, but he won't answer them. He will turn away from them at that time because of the evil things they have done.

Zechariah 7:13

So since they didn't listen when I called out to them, I wouldn't listen when they called out to me, says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 20:22

“You don't know what you're asking,” Jesus told them. “Are you able to drink the cup I'm about to drink?” “Yes, we are able to do that,” they told him.

Mark 10:38

“You don't know what you're asking,” replied Jesus. “Can you drink the cup I drink? Can you be baptized with the baptism of pain I will suffer?”

Luke 11:10

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

Luke 15:13

A few days later the younger son packed up what he had and left for a distant country. Here he wasted all his money living a reckless life.

Luke 15:30

Now this son of yours comes back, having spent your money on prostitutes, and you kill the fattened calf for him!’

James 4:1

Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you?

1 John 3:22

We'll receive from him whatever we ask him for, because we follow his commands and do what pleases him.

1 John 5:14

We can be confident that he will listen to us as long as we ask in accordance with his will.