American King James Version
"You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts. "
— James 4:3, American King James Version
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. ”
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
“you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.”
“You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.”
“You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.
You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
But he gives more grace. Why he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.