A moment in scripture
James 4:3
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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The surrounding passage
- James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
- James 4:2
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.
- James 4:4
Ye 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.
- James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.