James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.In other versions
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend `it' in your pleasures.
ASV
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
BBE
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
DBY
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
WEB
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.
YLT
All of you ask, and receive not, because all of you ask amiss, that all of you may consume it upon your lusts.
ENG
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
WBT
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
BSB
In context
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?