James 4:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Ye ask, and ye receive not; for that ye ask evil, as ye show openly in your covetings.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

And the Lord said to Solomon, For thou askedest this word, and askedest not to thee many days, neither riches, neither the lives of thine enemies, but thou askedest to thee wisdom to deem doom,

Job 35:12

There they shall cry, and God shall not hear them, for the pride of evil men.

Psalm 18:41

They cried, and none there was that made them safe; they cried to the Lord, and he heard not them.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they shall call me, and I shall not hear; they shall rise early, and they shall not find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifices of wicked men be abominable to the Lord; the avows of just men [or the vows of rightwise men] be pleasant.

Proverbs 21:13

He that stoppeth his ear at the cry of a poor man, shall cry also, and he shall not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The offerings of wicked men, that be offered of great trespass, be abominable.

Jeremiah 11:11

Wherefore the Lord saith these things, Lo! I shall bring in on them evils, of which they shall not be able to go out; and they shall cry to me, and I shall not hear them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and take thou not praising and prayer for them; for I shall not hear in the time of the cry of them to me, in the time of the torment of them.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they shall fast, I shall not hear the prayers of them; and if they offer burnt sacrifices and slain sacrifices, I shall not receive them, for I shall waste them by sword and hunger and pestilence.

Micah 3:4

Then they shall cry to the Lord, and he shall not hear them; and he shall hide his face from them in that time, as they did wickedly in their findings.

Zechariah 7:13

And it is done, as he spake; and as they heard not, so they shall cry, and I shall not hear [them], saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 20:22

Jesus answered, and said, Ye know not what ye ask. May ye drink of the cup that I shall drink of? [or that I am to drink?] They say to him, We may.

Mark 10:38

And Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask; may ye drink the cup, which I shall drink, or be washed with the baptism, in which I am baptized?

Luke 11:10

For each that asketh, taketh, and he that seeketh, findeth; and to a man that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not after many days, when all things were gathered together, the younger son went forth in pilgrimage into a far country; and there he wasted his goods [or his substance] in living lecherously.

Luke 15:30

But after that this thy son, that hath devoured his substance with whores, came, thou hast slain to him a fat [or a fatted] calf.

James 4:1

Whereof be battles and chidings among you? Whether not of your covetings, that fight in your members?

1 John 3:22

and whatever we shall ask, we shall receive of him, for we keep his commandments, and we do those things that be pleasant before him.

1 John 5:14

And this is the trust which we have to God [or that we have in God], that whatever thing we ask after his will, he shall hear us.