James 4:3

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When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

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  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 This is the confidence we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 You have made my enemies turn their backs in retreat, and I destroy those who hate me.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 19 But truly, God has listened; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they will not find me.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable, even more when it is brought with evil intent.
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘I am bringing disaster upon them from which they cannot escape. Even though they will cry out to me, I will not listen to them.’
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or petition for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me because of their disaster.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 Even if they fast, I will not listen to their cry; even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will consume them by sword, famine, and plague.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time because of the evil they have done.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.
  • Matt 20:22 : 22 Jesus answered, 'You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?' They said to him, 'We are able.'
  • Mark 10:38 : 38 Jesus said to them, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?'
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 Not long after, the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in reckless living.
  • Luke 16:1-2 : 1 Jesus also said to His disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this manager was wasting his possessions. 2 So he called him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be manager.'
  • Jas 1:6-7 : 6 But let him ask in faith, without doubting, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 Let that person not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts?
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 9 Will God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him? 10 Does he delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?
  • Job 35:12 : 12 There they cry out, but He does not answer because of the pride of evil men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts?

    2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

    5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit God caused to dwell in us longs jealously for us?

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

    16 For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7 Let that person not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without rebuke, and it will be given to him.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want to do.

  • Jas 1:14-16
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    14 But each person is tempted when they are drawn away and enticed by their own desire.

    15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

    16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Jas 5:5-6
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    5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

    6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.

  • Matt 7:7
    68%

    7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

  • John 16:24
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    24 Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.

  • Matt 6:8
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    8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

    8 Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat—and you do this to your brothers and sisters.

  • Jas 3:14-15
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    14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth.

    15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13 Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.'

    14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

    15 Instead, you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.'

    16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

  • 1 John 3:22
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    22 And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Matt 7:11
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    11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him?

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Luke 11:9-10
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    9 So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

    10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

  • Rev 3:17
    66%

    17 Because you say, 'I am rich, I have become wealthy, and I don’t need anything,' yet you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25 Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29 So do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, and do not worry about it.

    30 For all the nations of the world eagerly seek these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

    31 Instead, seek His kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

  • Ps 78:18
    66%

    18 They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving.

  • Matt 6:19
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    19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

  • John 5:40
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    40 But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • John 15:7
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    7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

  • Luke 6:30
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    30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

  • Isa 58:3
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    3 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' Yet on the day of your fasting, you pursue your own desires and oppress all your workers.

  • Matt 6:32
    65%

    32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

  • Jas 5:3
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    3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.