3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
2 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
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 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.