James 4:3
World English Bible (WEB)
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
In context
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
James 4:3 in every translation
- 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.
- KJV King James Version
- Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
- 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.