3Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.
3Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.
1 Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.
4 Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
5 Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
4:3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4:3You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4:3You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4:3ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
4:3You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.