James 4:3
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:11
So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies--but you have asked for discernment to administer justice--

Psalm 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

1 John 3:22
and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.


Treasury of Scripture
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.

ask, and.



James 1:6,7
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed…



Job 27:8-10
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? …



Job 35:12
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

ye may.



Luke 15:13,30
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living…



Luke 16:1,2
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods…

lusts.



James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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