Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
New American Standard Bible
You ask and
King James Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Holman Bible
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
International Standard Version
You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.
A Conservative Version
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
American Standard Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Amplified
You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask
An Understandable Version
[When] you do ask, you do not receive it, because you ask from wrong motives, [just] so you can satisfy your own pleasures.
Anderson New Testament
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
Common New Testament
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Daniel Mace New Testament
you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.
Darby Translation
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.
Godbey New Testament
you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.
Goodspeed New Testament
You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
John Wesley New Testament
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.
King James 2000
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
Modern King James verseion
You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.
Moffatt New Testament
you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.
Montgomery New Testament
You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.
NET Bible
you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
New Heart English Bible
You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Noyes New Testament
ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Sawyer New Testament
you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend it .
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
Webster
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Weymouth New Testament
or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
Williams New Testament
You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
World English Bible
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Worrell New Testament
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.
Worsley New Testament
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Youngs Literal Translation
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
Themes
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Ask amiss
Topics
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it. 3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure. 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
Cross References
1 John 5:14
And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
Psalm 18:41
They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
Job 27:8-10
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Job 35:12
There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
Psalm 66:18-19
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Isaiah 1:15-16
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.
Jeremiah 11:14
And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, You have no knowledge of what you are saying. Are you able to take of my cup? or to undergo the baptism which I am to undergo?
Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
Luke 16:1-2
And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.
James 1:6-7
Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.
James 4:1
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?