James 4:3

You-are-giving-cause/requesting and you-are_not_taking, through-that badly you-are-giving-cause/requesting-for-selves, in-which-place you-may-spend in to{the pleasures} of{you}.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

In Context

2You-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.

4Adulterers and adulterous, you-have_not_beheld that the fond-ia/friendship of{the world} is-being hostility of{the God}. So, who if-supposing may-intend to-be-being friend of{the world} is-standing/setting-down-self hostile of{the God}.

Read all of James 4

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study James 4:3