James 4:2
You-are-desiring-upon and you-are_not_having. You-are-murdering and you-are-zealing, and you-are_not_being-enabled to-occur-upon. You-are-fighting and you-are-warring, and you-are_not_having, through the you not to-be-giving-cause/requesting-for-selves.
Garth's Hyper-literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Luke 11:9and-I am-saying to{you}, be-giving-cause/requesting and it-will-be-given to{you}, be-seeking and you-will-discover, be-knocking and it-will-be-opened-anew to{you},
John 16:24Until presently you-do_not_give-cause/request, not-one/nothing, in to{the name} of{me}. Be-giving-cause/requesting, and you-will-take/get, in-which-place the joy of{you} may-be-being having-been-fulfilled.
James 1:5Moreover, if anyone of{you} is-being-left/quit/forsaken/abandoned, [he:] be-giving-cause/requesting of{wisdom} beside of{the giving} of{God} to{all}, simply/plainly/straightforwardly, and not of{reproach-izing}, and it-will-be-given to{same}.
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye 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. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →