James 4:3:
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
(NIV)
[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.
(AMP)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
(KJV)
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders co...
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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