James 4:3
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- ask, and
- James 1:6, 7; Job 27:8–10; Job 35:12; Psalm 18:41; Psalm 66:18, 19; Proverbs 1:28; Proverbs 15:8; Proverbs 21:13, 27; Isaiah 1:15, 16; Jeremiah 11:11, 14; Jeremiah 14:12; Micah 3:4; Zechariah 7:13; Matthew 20:22; Mark 10:38; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:14
- ye may
- Luke 15:13, 30; Luke 16:1, 2
- lusts
- or, pleasures.
- James 4:1