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

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

And Jesus answering said, 'Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, 'We are able.'

and Jesus said to them, 'Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with -- to be baptized?'

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

Ye may

'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

And he said also unto his disciples, 'A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

Lusts

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

General references

for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --