James 4:3
“Ye aske and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that yee may consume it vpon your lusts.”
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James 4:3 Context
1From whence come warres and fightings among you? come they not hence, euen of your lusts, that warre in your members? 2Ye lust, and haue not: yee kill, and desire to haue, and cannot obtaine: yee fight and warre, yet yee haue not, because ye aske not. 3Ye aske and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that yee may consume it vpon your lusts. 4Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. 5Doe ye thinke that the Scripture saith in vaine, the spirit that dwelleth in vs lusteth to enuy?
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Other Translations for James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
- King James Version
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend {it} on your pleasures.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend `it' in your pleasures.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
- Darby Bible
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
- Webster's Bible
or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
- Weymouth Bible
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
- World English Bible
Ye axen, and ye resseyuen not; for that ye axen yuele, as ye schewen opynli in youre coueitisis.
- Wycliffe Bible
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for James 4:3
4:3 But if ye do ask, ye receive not, because ye ask amiss - That is, from a wrong motive.
People's Bible Notes for James 4:3
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss. Some even have prayed for the things which would satisfy their lusts, but God hears not such prayers.