James 4:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

So God said to him: Because you asked for this—you did not ask for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies—but you asked for discernment to know what is right—

Job 35:12

Though thus they cry out, he does not answer because of the pride of the wicked.

Psalm 18:41

You made my foes expose their necks to me; those who hated me I silenced.

Proverbs 1:28

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

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:13

Those who shut their ears to the cry of the poor will themselves call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, the more so when they offer it with bad intent.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord: See, I am bringing upon them a disaster they cannot escape. Though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Now, you must not intercede for this people; do not raise on their behalf a cry or prayer! I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not listen to their supplication. If they sacrifice burnt offerings or grain offerings, I will take no pleasure in them. Rather, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.

Micah 3:4

When they cry to the Lord, he will not answer them; He will hide his face from them at that time, because of the evil they have done.

Zechariah 7:13

Just as when I called out and they did not listen, so they will call out and I will not listen, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 20:22

Jesus said in reply, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” They said to him, “We can.”

Mark 10:38

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

Luke 11:10

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

Luke 15:13

After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.

Luke 15:30

But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’

James 4:1

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?

1 John 3:22

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

1 John 5:14

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