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


In Context

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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 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 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.