3You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
3You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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|?
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
4:3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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.
4:3ye 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.