3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.


In Context

1 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

James 4:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:3You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:3You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.