James 4:3
New Living Translation
And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

American Standard Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

English Revised Version
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

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

World English Bible
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Young's Literal Translation
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

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