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


In Context

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?

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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

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.