James 4:3
King James Version (KJV)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
World English Bible (WEB)
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
James 4:3 Cross References
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
