NET Bible
"you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions."
— James 4:3, NET Bible
“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 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.”
Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;
you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”