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 for [it] in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about.

for what [is the] hope of [the] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?

There they cry out, but he does not answer {because of the pride of evildoers}.

They cried out but there was no rescuer, [even] to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.

And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, "I [am] about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.

Although they fast, I [am] not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I [am] not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I [am] about to destroy them."

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.

'Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts.

But Jesus answered [and] said, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.

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

Ye may

And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully.

And he also said to the disciples, "A certain man was rich, who had a manager. And charges were brought to him that this person was squandering his possessions.

Lusts

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

General references

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;