James 4:3

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Summary

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Ask, and

Ye may

Luke 15:13

Luke 16:1

Lusts

James 4:1

General references

Luke 11:10

Galatians 5:15

James 1:7

Bible References

Ask, and

But he must ask in faith, without any doubts, for the one who has doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

For where is the hope of the godless when he is eliminated; when God takes away his life?

"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.

They cried out for deliverance, but there was no one to deliver; they cried out to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

Were I to cherish iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not listen to me.

"Then they will call out to me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Whoever refuses to hear the cry of the poor will also cry himself, but he won't be answered.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I'll hide my eyes from you. Even though you pray repeatedly, I won't listen. Your hands are full of blood, your fingers drenched with iniquity."

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to bring disaster on them from which they won't be able to escape. They'll cry out to me, but I won't listen to them.

Although they fast, I won't listen to their cry, and although they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I won't accept them. Instead, I'll put an end to them with the sword, with famine, and with a plague."

"Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not listen to them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they were so wicked in what they were doing."

Therefore, just as when I cried out and they would not listen, so also they will cry out, and I will not listen,' says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Jesus replied, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?" They told him, "We can."

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

Whatever we request we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

And this is the confidence that we have in him: if we ask for anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Ye may

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

Now Jesus was saying to the disciples, "A rich man had a servant manager who was accused of wasting his assets.

Lusts

Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

General references

because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.

Such a person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.