James 4:3 | |
NASB: You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend [it] on your pleasures. (NASB ©1995) GWT: When you pray for things, you don't get them because you want them for the wrong reason-for your own pleasure. (GOD'S WORD®) KJV: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. ASV: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. BBE: 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. DBY: Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures. WEY: 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. WBS: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. WEB: You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. YLT: ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it]. | |
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