Verse 3
James 4:3
English Revised Version
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Original Language Text
greek
αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
English Translation
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong intentions, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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Chapter 4 Context
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Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures th...
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because...
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
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Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God (Elohim)? Whosoever...
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Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long u...
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God (Elohim) resisteth the proud, but givet...
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Be subject therefore unto God (Elohim); but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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8
Draw nigh to God (Elohim), and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify...
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9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heavines...
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
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11
Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother,...
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12
One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou tha...
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13
Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and tra...
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14
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appear...
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15
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
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16
But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
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To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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