James 4:3 - New Testament in Braid Scots 1904 (William Wye Smith)

³ Ye ask, and ye get‐na: for that ye ask‐na weel; that ye micht ware it on yere pleasurs.

James 4:3 Iomraidhean Croise

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answerʼt and said, “Ye kenna what ye seek! Are ye fit to drink oʼ the cup I am to drink oʼ?” They say till him, “We are fit!”

Mark 10:38

Jesus says to them, “Ye ken‐na what ye are seekin! Can ye drink the cup I drink oʼ? or be bapteezt wiʼ the bapteezin I am bapteezʼt wi?”

Luke 11:10

“For ilka ane that asks obteens; and he that seeks, finʼs; and to him that chaps, it sal be unsteekit.

Luke 15:13

“And, a wheen days eftir, the young son gaitherʼt aʼ his gear thegither, and gaed awa frae hame till a far‐awa lanʼ; and thar sperflʼt his gear in riotousness.

Luke 15:30

“ ‘But whaneʼer this yere son, wha has devoorʼt yere leevin wiʼ harlots, cam, ye killed the stallʼd cauf!’

James 4:1

Whar come the wars and fechtins amang ye? Eʼen hence, oot oʼ yere pleasurs, that tak the field amang yere members!

1 John 3:22

And whatna things we may be seekin, we are obteenin frae him; for his commauns we are keepin, and the things pleasin in his sicht we are doin.

1 John 5:14

And this is the freedom oʼ speech that we hae toward him; that, gin onything we be askin, conform to his wull, he hearkens to us.