James 4:3 - William Tyndale New Testament

Ye ask and have not, because ye ask amiss, for to consume it upon your voluptuousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Common English Bible

You ask and don’t have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

James 4:3 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 20:22

Iesus answered, and said: Ye wot not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? And to be baptised with the baptism, that I shall be baptised with? They answered to him: That we are.

Mark 10:38

But Iesus said unto them: Ye wot not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup, that I shall drink of? And be baptised in the baptism that I shall be baptised in?

Luke 11:10

For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh shall it be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

Luke 15:30

but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy goods with harlots, thou hast for his pleasure killed the fatted calf.

James 4:1

¶ From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? come they not here hence? even of your voluptuousness that reign in your members.

1 John 3:22

and whatsoever we ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 5:14

And this is the trust that we have in him: that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us.