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. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions Calculated to ... - Page 4031812Full view - About this book
| Samuel Barnard - Apologetics - 1806 - 336 pages
...hence even of your lusts, that war in your mein" bets ? Ye lust and have not, ye kill and de" sire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and " war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not," James iv. 1,2. The world teems with adultery, rapine, and wrong. Many burn for those whom the law of... | |
| Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 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 - Bible - 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... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Bible - 1807 - 428 pages
...Ye covet, and have not : ye kill, and ye earnestly desire, and cannot'obtain : ye fight, 3 ye wage war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not [the thing you desire] because ye ask amiss, that ye may 4 squander them away upon your lusts. Ye adulterers,... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...apt to fight with each other. IV. 2 Ye lust, and ha\e not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cartnot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye long after others' commodities, and go without them : ye are rancorously and murderously affected to... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 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... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 586 pages
...of recovering their liberty. But as the apostle says, they did not obtain 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... | |
| Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 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... | |
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...heareth not sinners ; but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth. (V) Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask...ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. («) He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination to... | |
| John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...members ? Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war ; yet ye 3 have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your 4 pleasures. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the... | |
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