Parallel Bible results for "james 4:3"

James 4:3

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3 When you pray for things, you don't get them because you want them for the wrong reason--for your own pleasure.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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