James 4:3

Weymouth NT

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

Cross References

Matthew 20:22

»None of you know what you are asking for,« said Jesus; »can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?«»We can,« they replied.

Mark 10:38

»You know not,« said He, »what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?«

Luke 11:10

For every one who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.

Luke 15:30

but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

James 4:1

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.

1 John 5:14

And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.