James 4:3

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Ye axe & receaue not because ye axe amysse: eue to cosume it vpo yor voluptuousnes.

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  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 And this is the fre boldnesse which we haue towarde him, that yf we axe eny thinge acordinge to his wyll, he heareth vs.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 And what so euer we axe, we shal receaue it: because we kepe his comaundemetes, and do those thinges, which are pleasaunt in his sighte.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cried, but there was none to helpe the: yee euen vnto the LORDE, but he herde the not.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 (Yff I enclyne vnto wickednes with my herte, ye LORDE wil not heare me.) 19 Therfore God hath herde me, ad considred the voyce off my prayer.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then shal they call vpo me, but I wil not heare: they shal seke me early, but they shal not fynde me:
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Who so stoppeth his eare at the criege of the poore, he shal crie himself and not be herde.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhominacion, for they offre the thinge yt is gotten wt wickednes.
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 Though ye holde out yor hondes, yet turne I myne eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet heare I nothinge at all, for youre hondes are full of bloude. 16 Wash you, make you clene, put awaye yor euell thoughtes out of my sight, cease from doinge of euell and violence.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE: Beholde, I will sende a plage amonge you, which ye shal not be able to escape: and though ye crie vnto me, I will not heare you.
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 But praye not thou for this people, byd nether prayse ner prayer for them: for though they crie vnto me in their trouble, yet will I not heare them.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 For though they fast, I will not heare their prayers. And though they offre burnt offriges & sacrifices, yet wil not I accepte them. For I will destroye them with the swearde, honger and pestilence.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Now the tyme shall come, that when they call vnto the LORDE, he shall not heare them, but hyde his face from them: because that thorow their owne ymaginacios, they haue dealte so wickedly.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 And thus is it come to passe, that like as he spake and they wolde not heare: euen so they cried, and I wolde not heare (saieth the LORDE of hoostes)
  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Iesus answered, and sayde: Ye wote not what ye axe. Maye ye drynke the cuppe, that I shal drynke? & to be baptised with the baptyme, that I shalbe baptysed withall?
  • Mark 10:38 : 38 But Iesus sayde vnto the: Ye wote not what ye axe. Maye ye drynke the cuppe, yt I shal drynke? and be baptysed with the baptyme that I shal be baptysed withall?
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 And not longe therafter, gathered the yonger sonne all together, & toke his iourney in to a farre countre, and there waisted he his goodes with ryotous lyuynge.
  • Luke 16:1-2 : 1 He sayde also vnto his disciples: There was a certayne riche man, which had a stewarde, that was accused vnto him, that he had waisted his goodes. 2 And he called him, and sayde vnto him: How is it, that I heare this of the? geue acomptes of yi stewardshipe, for thou mayest be no longer stewarde.
  • Jas 1:6-7 : 6 But let him axe in faith and wauer not. For he that douteth, is lyke the wawes of ye See, tost of the wynde, and caried wt violence. 7 Nether let yt man thinke that he shal receaue eny thige of ye LORDE.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 From whence commeth warre and fightynge amonge you: come they not here hence? euen of yor volupteousnesses that rayne in youre mebres?
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 What hope hath ye Ypocrite, though he haue greate good, and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre? 9 Doth God heare him the sooner, whe he crieth vnto him in his necessite? 10 Hath he soch pleasure & delyte in the Allmightie, that he darre allwaye call vpon God?
  • Job 35:12 : 12 Yf eny soch complayne, no ma geueth answere, and yt because of the wickednesse off proude tyrauntes.

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  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1From whence commeth warre and fightynge amonge you: come they not here hence? euen of yor volupteousnesses that rayne in youre mebres?

    2Ye lust, and haue not. Ye envie and haue indignacion, and can not obtayne. Ye fight & warre, and haue not, because ye axe not.

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4Ye aduouterars, & weme that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how that the frenshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to godwarde? Whosoeuer wilbe a frende of the worlde, is made ye enemie of god.

    5Ether do ye thinke yt the scripture sayth in vayne. The sprete yt dwelleth in you, lusteth euen contrary to enuie:

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15Se that ye loue not the worlde, nether ye thinges that are in the worlde. Yf eny man loue the worlde, the loue of the father is not in him:

    16for all that is in the worlde (namely the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pryde of life) is not of the father, but of the worlde.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7Nether let yt man thinke that he shal receaue eny thige of ye LORDE.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5Yf eny of you lacke wyssdome, let him axe of God, which geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geue him.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16I saye: Walke in the sprete, and so shal ye not fulfill the lustes off the flesshe.

    17For the flesh lusteth agaynst the sprete, and the sprete agaynst the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye can not do that which ye wolde:

  • Jas 1:14-16
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    14But euery ma is tepted, drawne awaye, & entysed of his awne cocupiscece.

    15The whe lust hath conceaued, she bringeth forth synne, & synne when it is fynished, bringeth forth deeth.

    16Erre not my deare brethre.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5& not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen which knowe not God.

  • Jas 5:5-6
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    5Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter.

    6Ye haue codempned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.

  • Matt 7:7
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    7Axe, and it shalbe geuen you: Seke, and ye shall fynde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

  • John 16:24
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    24Hither to haue ye axed nothinge in my name. Axe, and ye shal receaue, yt youre ioye maye be perfecte.

  • Matt 6:8
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    8Be not ye lyke them therfore. For youre father knoweth where of ye haue nede, before ye axe of him.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Now therfore is there vtterly a faute amoge you, that ye go to lawe one with another. Why rather suffre ye not wronge? Why suffre ye not youre selues rather to be defrauded?

    8but ye youre selues do wroge and defraude, and that euen the brethre.

  • Jas 3:14-15
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    14But yf ye haue bitter enuyenge and stryfe in yor hertes, reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth.

    15This wissdome descendeth not from aboue: but is erthy, and naturall, and dyuelishe.

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13Go to now ye that saye: to daye & to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare, and bye and sell, and wynne:

    14& yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:

    15For that ye ought to say: yf the LORDE wil, and yf we liue, let vs do this or that.

    16But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is euell.

  • 1 John 3:22
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    22And what so euer we axe, we shal receaue it: because we kepe his comaundemetes, and do those thinges, which are pleasaunt in his sighte.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4And it semeth to the a straunge thinge, yt ye runne not also wt them vnto the same excesse of ryote, & speake euell of you.

  • Matt 7:11
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    11yf ye then which are euell, can geue youre chyldren good gyftes: how moche more shall youre father which is in heauen, geue good thynges to them that axe hym?

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion.

  • Luke 11:9-10
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    9And I saye vnto you also: Axe, and it shal be geuen you: Seke, and ye shal fynde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

    10For who so euer axeth, receaueth: and he that seketh, fyndeth: and to him that knocketh, shal it be opened.

  • Rev 3:17
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    17because thou saist thou art riche and incresyd with goodes and hast nede of nothinge, and knowest not how thou art wretched & miserable, poore, blynde, and nakyd.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Neuertheles youre mi?dedes haue turned these from you, & youre synnes haue robbed you herof.

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29Axe not ye therfore what ye shal eate, or what ye shal drynke, and clymme not vp an hye:

    30The Heithen in the worlde seke after all soch thinges.

    31But seke ye the kyngdome of God, and all these shal be mynistred vnto you.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18Yet for all this they synned agaynst him, and prouoked the most hyest in the wildernesse.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30So they ate & were fylled, for he gaue them their owne desyre. They were not dispoynted of their lust.

  • Matt 6:19
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    19Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale.

  • John 5:40
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    40and ye wil not come vnto me, that ye might haue life.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4are ye not parciall in youre selues, and haue iudged after euyll thoughtes?

  • John 15:7
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    7Yf ye abyde in me, and my wordes abyde in you, ye shal axe what ye wyl, & it shal be done vnto you.

  • Luke 6:30
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    30Who so euer axeth of the, geue him: and who so taketh awaye thyne, axe it not agayne.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Let not synne reigne therfore in youre mortall bodye, that ye shulde obeye vnto the lustes of it.

  • Isa 58:3
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    3Wherfore fast we (saye they) and thou seist it not? we put oure liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?

  • Matt 6:32
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    32After all soch thynges do the heithen seke. For youre heauenly father knoweth, that ye haue nede of all these thynges.

  • Jas 5:3
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    3Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes:

  • Eph 5:6
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    6(Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue.