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


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.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?

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 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 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.