Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
2 Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
Cross References
1 John 5:14
And this is the freedom of speech which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:
1 John 3:22
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
Psalm 18:41
They will cry and none saving: to Jehovah, and he answered them not
Job 27:8-10
For what the hope of the profane one if he shall plunder? for God shall draw out his soul.
Job 35:12
Then they will cry, and he will not answer from the face of the pride of the evil.
Psalm 66:18-19
If I saw vanity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me;
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.
Proverbs 21:13
He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the unjust is an abomination, for also he will bring it in mischief.
Isaiah 1:15-16
And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
For this, thus said Jehovah, Behold me bringing evil to them which they shall not be able to go forth from it; and they cried to me and I will not hear to them.
Jeremiah 11:14
And thou shalt not pray for this people, and thou shalt not lift up for them an outcry and a prayer: for I hear not in the time of their calling to me for their evil.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they shall fast I hear not their outcry; and when they shall bring up a burnt-offering and gift, I accept them not; for with the sword and by famine and by death I consume them.
Micah 3:4
Then shall they cry to Jehovah and he will not answer them, and he will hide his face from them in that time, as their doings were evil.
Zechariah 7:13
And it will be as he called and they heard not; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of armies:
Matthew 20:22
And Jesus having answered, said, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink, and be immersed with the immersion which I am immersed? They say to him, We can.
Mark 10:38
And Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I drink? and the immersion with which I am immersed to be immersed
Luke 15:13
And not many days after, having gathered all things, the younger son went abroad into a far-off country, and there disposed his property, living in a profligate manner.
Luke 15:30
And when this thy son, devouring thy property with harlots, came, thou hast sacrificed for him the fattened calf.
Luke 16:1-2
And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods.
James 1:6-7
And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.
James 4:1
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members