World English Bible
"You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures."
— James 4:3, World English 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 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 fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."