Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it .
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
James — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1 From whence come wars. As he had spoken of peace, and had reminded them that vices are to be exterminated in such a way as to preserve peace, he now comes to their contentions, by which they created confusion among themselves; and he shews that these arose from their…