American Standard Version
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. "
— James 4:3, American Standard Version
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
“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.”
Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.