James 4:3
New International Version
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

English Standard Version
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

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.

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

New American Standard Bible
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in 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.

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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