James 4:3

New International Version

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,

Job 35:12

He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Psalm 18:41

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

Proverbs 1:28

“Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with evil intent!

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

“Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.

Zechariah 7:13

“ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 20:22

“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered.

Mark 10:38

“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

Luke 11:10

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

Luke 15:13

“Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

James 4:1

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?

1 John 3:22

and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.

1 John 5:14

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.