James 4:3 - William Tyndale New Testament

³ 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

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

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.