James 4:3
Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?
Psalms 18:41They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but hee answered them not.
Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
Proverbs 21:13He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, he shall also cry and not be heard.
Isaiah 1:15And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:14Therfore thou shalt not pray for this people, neither lift vp a crie, or prayer for them: for when they cry vnto mee in their trouble, I will not heare them.
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 →