James 4:3

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

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1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

2 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

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James 4:3 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
KJV King James Version: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
WEB World English Bible: You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
ASV American Standard Version: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
DBY Darby Translation: Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
WBS Webster Bible: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.