James 4:3

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James 4:3

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

You⁺ ask and do not receive, because you⁺ ask wrongly, that you⁺ may spend [it] in your⁺ pleasures.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

James 4

¹ What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

² You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

³ And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

⁴ You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

⁵ Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

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