James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
American Standard 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 godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?
Psalms 18:41They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
Proverbs 1:28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:14Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto 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 →