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James 4:3

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

James 4:3 WEB

James 4:3 in the King James Version

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

Context

2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

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

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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