James 4:3

New Living Translation

And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

So God replied, “Because you have asked for wisdom in governing my people with justice and have not asked for a long life or wealth or the death of your enemies—

Job 35:12

And when they cry out, God does not answer because of their pride.

Psalm 18:41

They called for help, but no one came to their rescue. They even cried to the Lord, but he refused to answer.

Proverbs 1:28

“When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

Proverbs 21:13

Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of an evil person is detestable, especially when it is offered with wrong motives.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.

Jeremiah 11:14

“Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me in distress.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease.”

Micah 3:4

Then you beg the Lord for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to answer? After all the evil you have done, he won’t even look at you!”

Zechariah 7:13

“Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered by saying to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?” “Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism of suffering I must be baptized with?”

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Luke 15:13

“A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.

Luke 15:30

Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’

James 4:1

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?

1 John 3:22

And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.

1 John 5:14

And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him.