James 4:3

Modern King James Version

You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

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, and have not asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to judge justly,

Job 35:12

There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

Psalm 18:41

They cried, but there was none to save; even to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is a hateful thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful to God; how much more when he brings it with a wicked mind?

Jeremiah 11:11

So Jehovah says this: Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to Me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear them in the time they cry to Me for their trouble.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.

Micah 3:4

Then they shall cry to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them at that time, as they have done evil in their doings.

Zechariah 7:13

And it will be, as He called, and they did not listen, so they called, and I did not listen, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 20:22

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

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks it shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.

James 4:1

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?

1 John 3:22

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

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.