SinaiJames 4:3
World English Bible
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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James 4:3 in other translations
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
James 4:3 in context
- 1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
- 2You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
- 3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
- 4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- 5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?