James 4:3
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
In Context
Cross References
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?
Psalms 18:41They cried, but there was none to save, even to LORD, but he answered them not.
Proverbs 1:28Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me,
Proverbs 21:13He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:14Therefore do not pray thou for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →