The Bible › Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner) › James 4
James 4:3
You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
James 4:3 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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.
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
2 You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not.
3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.
Read James 4 in the app The whole chapter