James 4:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

James 4:3 —

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Cross-References

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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.
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. …
James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Topics

Cupidity Depravity of Man Desire Guilt Lasciviousness Lust Popular Sins Rebellion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I. The apostle here reproves the Jewish Christians for their wars, and for their lusts as the cause of them: Whence co…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Some of them are supposed to say in objection, But we do “ask” (pray); compare Jas 4:2. James replies, It is not enough to ask for good things, but we must ask with a good spirit and intention. “Ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it (your object of prayer) upon (literally, ‘in’) your lusts (literally, ‘pleasures’)”; not that ye may have the things you need for the service of God. Contrast Jas 1:…