James 4:3 - English Majority Text Version

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend it in gratifying your lusts.

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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 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to Him, "We are able."

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after, having gathered together all things, the younger son went on a journey to a distant country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fatted calf for him.'

James 4:1

From where come wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

1 John 3:22

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we should ask anything according to His will, He hears us.