James 4:2

New Testament Epistle (General) ASV (1901)

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

James 4:2 — American Standard Version

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Context — James 4

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.

1Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

4Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

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