3You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
3You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.
3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
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.
4:3Ye 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 evilly, that ye may consume 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.