James 4:3

James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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1 Samuel 14:37
Saul asked counsel of God: “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.

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Job 35:12
There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

Psalms 18:41
They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Ezekiel 20:31
When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

Matthew 25:12
But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

John 16:24
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Luke 11:1
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

Romans 8:27
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

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Matthew 7:9
Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Matthew 7:10
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

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Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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