King James Version (KJV)
James 4:3
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.”
Verse in context — James 4
1
From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
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.
3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
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.
5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?