James 1:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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  • Jas 4:3 : 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
  • 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 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
  • Isa 1:15 : 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.
  • Isa 58:3-4 : 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 [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

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    4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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    6But 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.

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    8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

  • Jas 1:12-13
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    12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

    13Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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    2You 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.

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    20for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

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    16Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

    17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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    5Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

    23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;

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    22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

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