Catholic Public Domain Version
"You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires. "
— James 4:3, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”