James 4:3
King James Version (KJV)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
In context
1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of 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? whosoever 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?
James 4:3 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.