James 1:7
Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- Jas 4:3 : 3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
- Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
- Prov 21:27 : 27 The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
- Isa 1:15 : 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
- Isa 58:3-4 : 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts; 4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Jas 1:4-63 verses85%
4 But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.
5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
6 Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.
- 80%
8 For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.
- Jas 1:12-132 verses72%
12 There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
13 Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:
- 71%
3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
- Jas 4:2-32 verses71%
2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.
3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
- 71%
20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
- 70%
27 And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.
- Jas 1:16-172 verses70%
16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
- 70%
1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.
- Jer 17:5-62 verses70%
5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
- 69%
12 So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.
- Jas 1:22-243 verses69%
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.
- 69%
7 Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
- Matt 7:7-82 verses69%
7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
- 69%
24 For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.
- 69%
22 And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.
- 69%
25 He who has, to him will be given: and he who has not, from him will be taken even that which he has.
- 68%
7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?
- 68%
6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.
- 68%
12 For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
- Jas 4:6-83 verses68%
6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
- 68%
20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
- Matt 6:7-82 verses68%
7 And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.
8 So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.
- 68%
7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
- 68%
36 In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
- 67%
9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
- 67%
31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
- 67%
12 But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.
- 67%
10 Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake?
- 67%
7 So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- 67%
1 Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
- 67%
29 And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
- 67%
10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.
- 67%
8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
- 67%
11 Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.
- 67%
26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
- 67%
6 And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
- 67%
20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.