James 4:3 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ [Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Common English Bible

³ You ask and don’t have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

English Standard Version 2016

³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 4:3 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 3:11

And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life or riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment,

Job 35:12

There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.

Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:

Proverbs 15:8

The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Proverbs 21:13

He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself and shall not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.

Jeremiah 11:11

Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Therefore, do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword and by famine and by the pestilence.

Micah 3:4

Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

Zechariah 7:13

And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 20:22

And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.

Mark 10:38

And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the chalice that I drink of: or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized?

Luke 11:10

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

James 4:1

From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?

1 John 3:22

And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.