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Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 You ask and don't receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend it on your desires for pleasure.
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English Standard Version
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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King James Version
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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The Message Bible
3 And why not? Because you know you'd be asking for what you have no right to. You're spoiled children, each wanting your own way.
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New American Standard Bible
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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New International Version
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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New King James Version
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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New Living Translation
3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
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New Revised Standard
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.
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American Standard Version
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
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The Bible in Basic English
3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
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Common English Bible
3 You ask and don't have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
3 You ask and don't have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
3 Or you pray and don't receive, because you pray with the wrong motive, that of wanting to indulge your own desires.
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The Darby Translation
3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
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Good News Translation
3 And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
3 And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
3 When you pray for things, you don't get them because you want them for the wrong reason--for your own pleasure.
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Hebrew Names Version
3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
3 Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
3 Ye ask , and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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Lexham English Bible
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
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New Century Version
3 Or when you ask, you do not receive because the reason you ask is wrong. You want things so you can use them for your own pleasures.
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New International Reader's Version
3 When you do ask for something, you don't receive it. Why? Because you ask for the wrong reason. You want to spend your money on your sinful pleasures.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
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Revised Standard Version
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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SBL Greek New Testament
3 αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
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Third Millennium Bible
3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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Tyndale
3 Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes.
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The Latin Vulgate
3 petitis et non accipitis eo quod male petatis ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis
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The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha
3 petitis et non accipitis eo quod male petatis ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis
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The Webster Bible
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
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World English Bible
3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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Weymouth New Testament
3 or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
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Wycliffe
3 Ye ask, and ye receive not; for that ye ask evil, as ye show openly in your covetings.
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Young's Literal Translation
3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
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