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James 4:3
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Pride Promotes Strife

1 Where do1 wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure athat war in your members?  
2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and1 war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.  
3 aYou ask and do not receive, bbecause you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.  
4 1Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that afriendship with the world is enmity with God? bWhoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.  
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, a“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?  
6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
a“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”  
Verse Comparison: James 4:3

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

Amplified® Bible
[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

Contemporary English Version
Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.

Darby English Version
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

Good News Bible
And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.

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.

King James Version
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.

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.

New King James Version
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on 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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