James 4:3

Young's Literal Translation 1898

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].

Cross References

1 Kings 3:11

and God saith unto him, ‘Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment,

Job 35:12

There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

Psalm 18:41

They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright [is] His delight.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

Jeremiah 11:14

And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

Micah 3:4

Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

Zechariah 7:13

And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 20:22

And Jesus answering said, ‘Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?’ They say to him, ‘We are able.’

Mark 10:38

and Jesus said to them, ‘Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with — to be baptized?’

Luke 11:10

for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

‘And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

Luke 15:30

but when thy son — this one who did devour thy living with harlots — came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

James 4:1

Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

1 John 3:22

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

1 John 5:14

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,