James 4:3

World English Bible (2000)

You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

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  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to 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 in his sight.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened. 19 But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, 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 a wicked mind!
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
  • Jer 11:14 : 14 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies;
  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and 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 don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
  • Luke 16:1-2 : 1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
  • Jas 1:6-7 : 6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him? 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
  • Job 35:12 : 12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

    2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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

  • Jas 1:5
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    5 But if 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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    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

    15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

    16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

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

    6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • Matt 7:7
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    7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

  • Matt 6:8
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    8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • Jas 3:14-15
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    14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

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

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

    14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

    15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

    16 But now you glory in your boasting. 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 the things that are pleasing in his sight.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 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 who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Luke 11:9-10
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    9 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

    10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

  • Rev 3:17
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    17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

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

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

    30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

    31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

  • Matt 6:19
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    19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

  • John 5:40
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    40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 haven't you shown partiality 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, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

  • Luke 6:30
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    30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

  • Isa 58:3
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    3 'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

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

  • Jas 5:3
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    3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure 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 comes on the children of disobedience.