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 let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer a burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves in an evil way in their deeds.

Therefore it has come to pass, that just as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:

But Jesus answered and said, You know not 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 unto him, We are able.

But Jesus said unto them, You know not what you ask: can you drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

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

Ye may

And not many days later the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Lusts

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

General references

For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.