James 4:3

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When you do ask for something, you don’t receive it because you’re asking for the wrong reason. You just want to satisfy your desires.

Cross References

1 John 5:14

When we pray to God, we can be confident of this: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

1 John 3:22

and God will give us anything we ask for. That’s because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

James 4:1

Why do you fight and argue among yourselves? Isn’t it because of your wrong desires that fight within you?

Luke 15:13

“Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he had, went to a distant country, and wasted his money on extravagant living.

Mark 10:38

“You don’t know what you’re asking for,” Jesus responded. “Can you drink the cup I’m going to drink? Can you go through the baptism I have to go through?”

Matthew 20:22

“You don’t know what you’re asking for,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup of suffering that I’m going to drink?” “We can,” they answered.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours comes home after wasting your money on prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks will receive, the one who searches will find, and the door will be opened to the one who knocks.