Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
WEB
James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Parallel Translations
Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.
Cross References
1 John 5:141 John 3:22James 1:6–7James 4:1Proverbs 15:8Micah 3:4Psalms 66:18–19Job 35:12Proverbs 21:13Zechariah 7:13Luke 16:1–2Job 27:8–10Jeremiah 11:14Matthew 20:22Mark 10:38
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