 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.  Lectures on Revivals of Religion - Page 85by Charles Grandison Finney - 1835 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...and desire to have, and canlot 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 die friendhip of the world is enmity with Jod ?... | |
 | 1842
...pride, luxury, and selfishness. St. James very forcibly rebukes such petitioners, in the words, " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (James iv. 3.) The glory of God should be our great aim, in our use and enjoyment of whatever temporal... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...vii. 5. " They tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their lust," Psal. Ixxviii. 18. " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts," James iv. 3. Secondly, The increasing and carrying on the work of sanctification is... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ve fight and 3 F 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 ?... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...things may we praf unto God? A. 1. We may not pray unto Gcd for any sinful desires, James iv. 4. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss ; that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 2. We may and ought to pray unto God only for such things as are agreeable unto his will, 1 John v.... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us. Ver. 15. See 2 Sum. vii. 27. James iv. 3. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. CLXXXIII. for daily brcud. Matt vi. 1 1. Give us this day our dally bread. 1 Tim. iv. 5. Every creature... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 586 pages
...what they strongly tieand 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?... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand : he loveth to oppress. P James iv. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 9 Gen. xliii. 12. And take double money in your hand : and the money that was brought again in the... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1810 - 326 pages
...may we pray unto God? A. 1. We may not pray for the fulfilling of any sinful desires. James iv. 3, Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it uppn your lusts. 2. We may and ought to pray unto God only for such things as are agreeable unto his... | |
 | 1812 - 428 pages
...and desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Our blessed Saviour and \Redmner, whose disciple James was, had before forbidjilen all wars and fightings.... | |
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