James 4:3 - The Emphatic Diaglott New Testament (1942)

³ you ask, and not you receive, because wickedly you ask, so that in the pleasure of you you may waste.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ [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)

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

Common English Bible

³ You ask and don’t have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

James 4:3 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 20:22

Answering but the Jesus said: Not you know, what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup, which I am about to drink? They say to him: We are able.

Mark 10:38

The and Jesus said to them: Not you know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup, which I drink, and the dipping, which I am dipped, to be dipped?

Luke 11:10

All for the asking receives; and the seeking finds; and to the knocking it shall be opened.

Luke 15:13

And after not many days having gathered together all the younger son, went abroad into a country distant; and there wasted the property of himself, living dissolutely.

Luke 15:30

When and the son of the this, the having devoured of thee the living with harlots, come, thou has sacrificed for him the calf the fatted.

James 4:1

Whence wars and fightings among you? Not hence, from the pleasures of you of those warring in the members of you?

1 John 3:22

and whatever we may ask, we receive from him, because the commandments of him we keep, and the things pleasing in presence of him we do.

1 John 5:14

And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if anything we may ask according to the will of him, he hears us;