Parallel Verses
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.
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
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
2
You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and
Cross References
1 John 5:14
This is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
1 John 3:22
Whatever we ask we receive from Him because we obey His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
Psalm 18:41
They cried out for help, but there was no one to save them. They cried out to Jehovah, but he did not answer them.
Job 27:8-10
What hope doe the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Job 35:12
They cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.
Psalm 66:18-19
If I had thought about doing anything sinful, Jehovah would not have listened to me.
Proverbs 1:28
You will ask for my help, but I will not listen. You will search, but you will not find me.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah! The prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry, but will not be heard.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination! How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Isaiah 1:15-16
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore Jehovah says: 'I am going to bring a disaster on them that they cannot escape. Although they will cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
Jeremiah 11:14
Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry or pray for them. I will not listen when they call to me for help in times of trouble.
Jeremiah 14:12
Even if they go without food, I will not listen to their cries for help. Even if they sacrifice burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not be pleased with them. But I will destroy these people with wars, famines, and plagues.
Micah 3:4
They will cry to Jehovah but he will not answer them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time because they have done evil things.
Zechariah 7:13
I cried, and they would not listen. Now they will cry, and I will not listen,' said Jehovah of Hosts!
Matthew 20:22
Jesus told her: You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup I am about to take?
Mark 10:38
You do not know what you ask, Jesus replied. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
Luke 15:13
In a short time the younger son sold his share of the property. He left home with the money and traveled to a far away country where he wasted his money in reckless living.
Luke 15:30
This son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes. When he comes home you kill the prize calf for him!
Luke 16:1-2
Jesus told his disciples: There was a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man learned that the manager was accused of wasting his master's money.
James 1:6-7
However he must ask in faith, not doubting: for he who doubts is like a surging wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
James 4:1
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?