James 4:3
You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
Psalms 18:41And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.
Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
Proverbs 21:13He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself and shall not be heard.
Isaiah 1:15And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:14Therefore, do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.
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 →