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James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
James 4:3 · Webster 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 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] from your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
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