James 4:3 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”
James 4:3 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
James 4:3 in 6 Bible Translations
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James 4:3 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
James 4:3 — World English Bible
James 4:3 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. ”
James 4:3 — American Standard Version
James 4:3 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .”
James 4:3 — Young's Literal Translation
James 4:3 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures. ”
James 4:3 — Darby Translation
James 4:3 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.”
James 4:3 — Geneva Bible
James 4:3 in Context — James 4
1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
What Does James 4:3 Mean?
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