James 4:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires.

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  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that 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 those things that are pleasing in his sight.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: 19 But truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me for their trouble.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:
  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said to him, We are able.
  • Mark 10:38 : 38 But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask: can you drink the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
  • Luke 16:1-2 : 1 And he also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his goods. 2 And he called him and said to him, How is it that I hear this about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.
  • Jas 1:6-7 : 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members?
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
  • Job 35:12 : 12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members?

    2You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask.

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

    5Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns jealously?

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

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

  • Jas 1:7
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    7For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

  • Jas 1:14-16
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    14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

    15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

    16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • Jas 5:5-6
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    5You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

    6You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.

  • Matt 7:7
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    7Ask, 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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    24Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be complete.

  • Matt 6:8
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    8Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask Him.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

    8No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.

  • Jas 3:14-15
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    14But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

    15This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit;

    14Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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

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

  • 1 John 3:22
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    22And whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • Matt 7:11
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    11If 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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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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

    10For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

  • Rev 3:17
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    17Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

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

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29And do not seek what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor be of anxious mind.

    30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you need these things.

    31But rather seek the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added to you.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

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

  • Jas 2:4
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    4are you not then partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • John 15:7
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    7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you.

  • Luke 6:30
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    30Give to everyone who asks of you; and from him who takes away your goods, do not ask them back.

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

  • Isa 58:3
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    3Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors.

  • Matt 6:32
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    32For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

  • Jas 5:3
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    3Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days.

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