James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
World English Bible
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, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Psalms 18:41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them.
Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,
Proverbs 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:14“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or 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 →