James 4:3 KJV — MannaFest

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

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ASV

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

WEB

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

YLT

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it .

DBT

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

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James — The Lord's brother writes to the twelve tribes scattered abroad — five chapters of direct, practical wisdom on the life faith produces. Pure religion, the tongue, the prayer of the righteous.

Author: James the Lord's brother (traditional — cf. Gal 1:19), leader of the Jerusalem church
Date: Early — possibly mid-40s AD, making it likely the earliest NT letter

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1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John 3:22
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Psalms 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
James 1:6–7
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

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Let us remember this, that when we speed not in our prayers it is because we ask amiss; either we do not ask for right ends or not in a right manner, not with faith or not with fervency: unbelieving and cold desires beg denials; and this we may be sure of, that, when our prayers are rather the language of our lusts than of our graces, they will return empty.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Contrast Jas 1:5 with Mt 6:31, 32. If ye prayed aright, all your proper wants would be supplied; the improper cravings which produce "wars and fightings" would then cease. Even believers' prayers are often best answered when their desires are most opposed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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JAS 4:31JN 5:14 JHN 15:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JAS 4:31JN 5:14 JHN 14:13
JAS 4:31JN 5:14 JER 29:12-13
JAS 4:31JN 5:14 JER 33:3
JAS 4:31JN 5:14 1JN 3:21-22
JAS 4:3JAS 4:1 1PE 2:11
JAS 4:3JAS 4:1 GAL 5:17
JAS 4:3JAS 4:1 ROM 7:23

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