James 4:2-3
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?Select James 4:1
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.Select James 4:2
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.Select James 4:3
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.Select James 4:4
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?Select James 4:5
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WEB
4:2 You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
4:3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
ASV
4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
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