3ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.


In Context

1 Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

2 ye 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;

3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

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 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 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.