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James 4:3
Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend [it].
James 4:3 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
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 wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence—due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members?
2 Ye covet—and have not, ye commit murder, and are jealous—and cannot obtain,—ye fight and war. Ye have not—because ye do not really ask,
3 Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend [it].
4 Adulteresses! Know ye not that, the friendship of the world, is, enmity to God? Whosoever, therefore, is minded to be, a friend, of the world, an enemy of God, doth constitute himself.
5 Or think ye that, in vain, the scripture speaketh? Is it, for envying, that the spirit which hath taken an abode within us doth crave?
6 Howbeit he giveth, greater, favour. Wherefore it saith—God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, Whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.
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