James 4:3 - English Majority Text Version

³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend it in gratifying your lusts.

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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 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to Him, "We are able."

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after, having gathered together all things, the younger son went on a journey to a distant country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fatted calf for him.'

James 4:1

From where come wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

1 John 3:22

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we should ask anything according to His will, He hears us.