James 4:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request 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 a long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the lives of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,

Job 35:12

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

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was no one to save, They cried to the Lord, but He did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

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

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

Proverbs 21:27

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

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore this is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

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

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 put an end to them by the sword, famine, and plague.”

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to the Lord, 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 just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of armies;

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus replied, “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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one 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 to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate in wild living.

Luke 15:30

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

James 4:1

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body’s parts?

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

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