Verse 3

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

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • 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.