James 4:3 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

³ Or when you ask, you don’t receive anything, because the reason you ask is wrong. You only want to use it for your own pleasure.

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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.

James 4:3 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 3:11

So God said to him, “You did not ask for long life and riches for yourself. You did not ask for the death of your enemies. You asked for the wisdom to listen and make the right decisions.

Job 35:12

“Or if evil people ask God for help, he will not answer them, because they are too proud.

Psalm 18:41

They cried out for help, but there was no one to save them. They cried out to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

Proverbs 1:28

“Fools will call for me, but I will not answer. They will look for me, but they will not find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord hates the offerings of the wicked, but he is happy to hear the prayers of those who live right.

Proverbs 21:13

Those who refuse to help the poor will not receive help when they need it themselves.

Proverbs 21:27

God hates sacrifices from the wicked, especially when their reason for offering them is evil.

Jeremiah 11:11

So this is what the Lord says: “I will soon make something terrible happen to the people of Judah. They will not be able to escape. They will be sorry and cry to me for help, but I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

“As for you, Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people of Judah. Don’t beg for them. Don’t say prayers for them. I will not listen. They will suffer and then call to me for help, but I will not listen.

Jeremiah 14:12

They might begin to fast and pray to me, but I will not listen to their prayers. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. I will destroy the people of Judah with war. I will take away their food, and they will starve. And I will destroy them with terrible diseases.”

Micah 3:4

Then you will pray to the Lord, but he will not answer you. No, he will hide his face from you, because what you do is evil.”

Zechariah 7:13

So the Lord All-Powerful said, “I called to them, and they did not answer. So now, if they call to me, I will not answer.

Matthew 20:22

So Jesus said to the sons, “You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink from the cup that I must drink from?” The sons answered, “Yes, we can!”

Mark 10:38

Jesus said, “You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink from the cup that I must drink from? Can you be baptized with the same baptism that I must go through?”

Luke 11:10

Yes, whoever continues to ask will receive. Whoever continues to look will find. And whoever continues to knock will have the door opened for them.

Luke 15:13

“A few days later the younger son gathered up all that he had and left. He traveled far away to another country, and there he wasted his money living like a fool.

Luke 15:30

But then this son of yours comes home after wasting your money on prostitutes, and you kill the best calf for him!’

James 4:1

Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? They come from the selfish desires that make war inside you.

1 John 3:22

And God gives us what we ask for. We receive it because we obey God’s commands and do what pleases him.

1 John 5:14

We can come to God with no doubts. This means that when we ask God for things (and those things agree with what God wants for us), God cares about what we say.