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James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
James 4:3 · American Standard Version
James 4:3 in other translations
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
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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In context
1 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
4 Ye 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.
5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
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