James 4:3

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you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever 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 the things that are pleasing to him.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 19 However, God heard; he listened to my prayer.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORD abhors the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The wicked person’s sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood. 16 Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 So I, the LORD, say this:‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 But as for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not raise a cry of prayer for them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.”
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.”
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 “‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said.
  • Matt 20:22 : 22 Jesus answered,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him,“We are able.”
  • Mark 10:38 : 38 But Jesus said to them,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?”
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.
  • Luke 16:1-2 : 1 The Parable of the Clever Steward Jesus also said to the disciples,“There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets. 2 So he called the manager in and said to him,‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’
  • Jas 1:6-7 : 6 But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 9 Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him? 10 Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?
  • Job 35:12 : 12 Then they cry out– but he does not answer– because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

    2You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

    5Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

  • 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,

    16because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

  • Jas 1:5
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    5But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

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

    17For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

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

    15Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

    16Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.

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

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

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

  • Matt 7:7
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    7Ask, Seek, Knock“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.

  • John 16:24
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    24Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

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

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

    8But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

  • Jas 3:14-15
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    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

    15Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

    14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

    15You ought to say instead,“If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

    16But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. 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 the things that are pleasing to him.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • Matt 7:11
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    11If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

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

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

  • Rev 3:17
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    17Because you say,“I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29So do not be overly concerned about what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not worry about such things.

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

    31Instead, pursue his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

  • Matt 6:19
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    19Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

  • John 5:40
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    40but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

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

  • Luke 6:30
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    30Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

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

  • Isa 58:3
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    3They lament,‘Why don’t you notice when we fast? Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’ Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.

  • Matt 6:32
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    32For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

  • Jas 5:3
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    3Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.