Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.
New American Standard Bible
You ask and
King James Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Holman Bible
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
International Standard Version
You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.
A Conservative Version
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
American Standard Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Amplified
You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask
An Understandable Version
[When] you do ask, you do not receive it, because you ask from wrong motives, [just] so you can satisfy your own pleasures.
Anderson New Testament
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.
Bible in Basic English
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
Common New Testament
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Daniel Mace New Testament
you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.
Godbey New Testament
you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.
Goodspeed New Testament
You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
John Wesley New Testament
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.
King James 2000
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
Modern King James verseion
You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.
Moffatt New Testament
you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.
Montgomery New Testament
You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.
NET Bible
you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
New Heart English Bible
You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Noyes New Testament
ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Sawyer New Testament
you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend it .
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
Webster
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Weymouth New Testament
or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
Williams New Testament
You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
World English Bible
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Worrell New Testament
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.
Worsley New Testament
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Youngs Literal Translation
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
Themes
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Ask amiss
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures. 4 Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
Cross References
1 John 5:14
And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 3:22
and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.
Psalm 18:41
They cried, and there was none to save; unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.
Job 27:8-10
For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?
Job 35:12
There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.
Psalm 66:18-19
Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.
Proverbs 1:28
then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when they bring it with a wicked purpose!
Isaiah 1:15-16
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will bring evil upon them, from which they shall not be able to escape; and they will cry unto me, and I will not hearken unto them.
Jeremiah 11:14
And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer up burnt-offering and oblation, I will not accept them: for I will consume them by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence.
Micah 3:4
Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
Zechariah 7:13
And it came to pass, like as he called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, saith Jehovah of hosts;
Matthew 20:22
And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.
Mark 10:38
And Jesus said to them, Ye do not know what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup which I drink, or be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?
Luke 15:13
And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.
Luke 15:30
but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Luke 16:1-2
And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.
James 1:6-7
but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;
James 4:1
Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?