NASB
"You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."
— James 4:3, NASB
“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.”
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."