James 4:3
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:”
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:”
“And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”
“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.”
“If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:”