James 4:3

Legacy Standard Bible

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to listen to justice,

Job 35:12

“There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men.

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was none to save, Even to Yahweh, but He did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

“Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me earnestly but they will not find me,

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ear to the outcry of the poor Will himself also call and not be answered.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, How much more when he brings it with a wicked scheme!

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing calamity on them which they will not be able to get out of; and they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

“But as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their calamity.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine, and pestilence.”

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to Yahweh, But He will not answer them. Instead, He will hide His face from them at that time Because they have practiced evil deeds.

Zechariah 7:13

And it happened that just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says Yahweh of hosts;

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” 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 that I drink, or 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 later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate living recklessly.

Luke 15:30

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

James 4:1

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

1 John 5:14

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