2You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.


In Context

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 4:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:2You 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:2You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.