3ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
3ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
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,'
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.
4:3You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4:3You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.