The Bible in Its Traditions

James 4:2–3

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You lust and you do not have. You murder and are jealous and you cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

You covet, and do not obtain; you kill and envy, but you cannot possess; you strive and fight, yet you have nothing, because you do not ask.

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You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.