James 4:3 - Wesley's New Testament 1755

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

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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

But Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink of, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

Luke 11:10

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

Luke 15:13

And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this thy son was come, who hath devoured thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

James 4:1

From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

1 John 3:22

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

1 John 5:14

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