James 4:3

The Text-Critical English New Testament

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Cross References

Matthew 20:22

Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” The two brothers 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, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 15:13

A few days later, the younger son gathered together all that he had and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by living recklessly.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yoʋrs came, who has devoured yoʋr assets with prostitutes, yoʋ killed the fattened calf for him.’

James 4:1

Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that wage war among your members?

1 John 3:22

and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what is pleasing in his sight.

1 John 5:14

This is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.