James 4:3Young's Literal Translation
you ask, and you receive not, because evilly you ask, that in your pleasures you may spend it.
Related Verses
Matthew 1:20
And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, 'Joseph, son of David, you may not fear to receive Mary your wife, for that which in her was conceived is of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 1:24
And Joseph, having risen from the sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord directed him, and received his wife,
Matthew 2:18
'A voice in Ramah was heard -- lamentation and weeping and much mourning -- Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.'
Matthew 5:3
'Blessed the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
Matthew 5:4
'Blessed the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.