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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. |
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. |
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on (in) your pleasures. |
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When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. |
[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. |
You pray for something to be given you and do not receive because you pray with evil intent in order that you may use it [for self-gratification] in your inordinate passions. |
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And when you do ask He doesn’t give it to you, for you ask in quite the wrong spirit – you only want to satisfy your own desires. |
You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures. |
Ye ask, 154 and 2532 receive 2983 not, 3756 because 1360 ye ask 154 amiss, 2560 that 2443 ye may consume 1159 it upon 1722 your 5216 lusts. 2237 |
- No cross references or parallel passage have been cited for this verse.
- In His Rest - Neil Girrard A Scriptural look at resting in God.
- Mark 11:24; The End Time Men - W.W. Fischer This verse has been exploited, probably more than any other verse of Scripture, to fulfill the fleshly, lustful desires of the divided hearts of born-again Christian people.