SinaiJames 4:3
American Standard Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
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James 4:3 in other translations
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4:3 in context
- 1Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
- 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
- 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
- 4Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
- 5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?