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, and waver not. For he that doubteth is like the waves of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried with violence.

What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

If any such complain, no man giveth answer; and that because of the wickedness of proud tyrants.

They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: Yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall hear them not. {TYNDALE: They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.}

If I incline unto wickedness with my heart, the LORD will not hear me.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.

When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

"Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will send a plague among you, which ye shall not be able to escape: and though ye cry unto me, I will not hear you.

For though they fast, I will not hear their prayers. And though they offer burnt offerings and sacrifices, yet will not I accept them. For I will destroy them with the sword, hunger, and pestilence."

Now the time shall come, that when they call unto the LORD, he shall not hear them, but hide his face from them, because that through their own Imaginations they have dealt so wickedly.

And thus is it come to pass, that like as he spake and they would not hear: "Even so, they cried and I would not hear, sayeth the LORD of Hosts,

Jesus answered, and said, "Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? And to be baptised with the baptism, that I shall be baptised with?" They answered to him, "That we are."

But Jesus said unto them, "Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup, that I shall drink of? And be baptised in the baptism that I shall be baptised in?"

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

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

Ye may

And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

And he said also unto his disciples, "There was a certain rich man, which had a steward, that was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Lusts

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

General references

For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh shall it be opened.

If ye bite and devour one another: take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.

Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.