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James 1:7

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

KJV

μὴ γὰρ οἰέσθω ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος ὅτι λήμψεταί τι παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου,

Greek NT

non ergo æstimet homo ille quod accipiat aliquid a Domino.

Vulgate

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

ASV

Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οἴομαι
oiomai
verb · 2×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2633When we share in God's saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all things in order to redeem all things, is glorified by what we ask the Father in his name.110 It is with this confidence that St. James and St. Paul exhort us to pray at all times.111
§2737"You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions."26 If we ask with a divided heart, we are "adulterers";27 God cannot answer us, for he desires our well-being, our life. "Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the scripture says, 'He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us?'"28 That our God is "jealous" for us is t…

Cross-references

  • Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
  • Isa 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 58:3 — Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours
  • Jas 4:3 — Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
  • Prov 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Prov 21:27 — The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?