James 4:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

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  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 And this is that assurance, that we haue in him, that if we aske any thing according to his will, he heareth vs.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 And whatsoeuer we aske we receiue of him, because we keepe his commaundements, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lorde, but hee answered them not.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me. 19 But God hath heard me, & considered the voyce of my prayer.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto him.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, he shall also cry and not be heard.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked minde?
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will bring a plague vpon them, which they shall not be able to escape, and though they crye vnto me, I will not heare them.
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 Therfore thou shalt not pray for this people, neither lift vp a crie, or prayer for them: for when they cry vnto mee in their trouble, I will not heare them.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 When they fast, I will not heare their cry, and when they offer burnt offering, and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sworde, and by the famine and by the pestilence.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he will not heare them: he wil euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, sayth the Lord of hostes.
  • Matt 20:22 : 22 And Iesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shalbe baptized with? They said to him, We are able.
  • Mark 10:38 : 38 But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye knowe not what ye aske. Can ye drinke of the cup that I shal drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme that I shall be baptized with?
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.
  • Luke 16:1-2 : 1 And he sayde also vnto his disciples, There was a certaine riche man, which had a stewarde, and he was accused vnto him, that he wasted his goods. 2 And hee called him, and saide vnto him, Howe is it that I heare this of thee? Giue an accounts of thy stewardship: for thou maiest be no longer steward.
  • Jas 1:6-7 : 6 But let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for hee that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the winde, and caried away. 7 Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule? 9 Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him? 10 Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?
  • Job 35:12 : 12 Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?

    2Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.

    5Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15Loue not this world, neither the things that are in this world. If any man loue this world, the loue of the Father is not in him.

    16For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, & reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.

  • Jas 1:14-16
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    14But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.

    15Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.

    16Erre not, my deare brethren.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

  • Jas 5:5-6
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    5Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.

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

  • Matt 7:7
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    7Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and ye shall finde: knocke, and it shall be opened vnto you.

  • John 16:24
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    24Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioye may be full.

  • Matt 6:8
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    8Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye haue neede, before ye aske of him.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Nowe therefore there is altogether infirmitie in you, in that yee goe to lawe one with another: why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather susteine yee not harme?

    8Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren.

  • Jas 3:14-15
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    14But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

    15This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,

    14(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

    15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.

    16But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

  • 1 John 3:22
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    22And whatsoeuer we aske we receiue of him, because we keepe his commaundements, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • Matt 7:11
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    11If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

  • Luke 11:9-10
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    9And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

    10For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: & to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.

  • Rev 3:17
    66%

    17For thou saiest, I am rich and increased with goods, and haue neede of nothing, and knowest not howe thou art wretched and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Yet your iniquities haue turned away these things, and your sinnes haue hindred good things from you.

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shal drinke, neither hag you in suspense.

    30For all such things the people of the world seeke for: and your Father knoweth that ye haue neede of these things.

    31But rather seeke ye after the kingdome of God, and all these things shalbe cast vpon you.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,

  • Matt 6:19
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    19Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.

  • John 5:40
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    40But ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4Are yee not partiall in your selues, and are become iudges of euill thoughts?

  • John 15:7
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    7If ye abide in me, and my wordes abide in you, aske what ye wil, & it shalbe done to you.

  • Luke 6:30
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    30Giue to euery man that asketh of thee: and of him that taketh away the things that be thine, aske them not againe.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Let not sinne reigne therefore in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in ye lusts therof:

  • Isa 58:3
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    3Wherefore haue we fasted, and thou seest it not? we haue punished our selues, and thou regardest it not. Beholde, in the day of your fast you will seeke your will, and require all your dettes.

  • Matt 6:32
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    32(For after all these things seeke the Gentiles) for your heauenly Father knoweth, that ye haue neede of all these things.

  • Jas 5:3
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    3Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.