King James Version
James 4:3 in the King James Version says “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. lusts: or, pleasures” — study this verse from James chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. lusts: or, pleasures”
James 4:3 · KJV
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? fightings: or, brawlings lusts: or, pleasures
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.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. lusts: or, pleasures
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.
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? to envy: or, enviously? to envy: or, enviously
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“ye may consume”
G1159to expend, i.e., (in a good sense) to incur cost, or (in a bad one) to waste
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