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James 4:3Jas.4.3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Vous demandez, et vous ne recevez pas, parce que vous demandez mal, dans le but de satisfaire vos passions.

KJV

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    o ask becoming things of God"; wherefore it is useless to pray for what is inexpedient, according to James 4:3, "You ask, and receive not: because you ask amiss." Now according to Rom. 8:26, "we know not what we should pray for as we ought." Therefore we ought not to ask for anyt…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 122 (Migne)

    oquio et ipse non immerito audiens: Petitis, et non accipitis, quia male petitis [Note: [Col. 1109D] Jac. IV, 3.] . Non ergo divinus summus sacerdos expetit divinitus promissa, et amabilia Deo, et omnino donanda, et hoc propria deiformiter habitu ostendens bonorum [Col. 1109C] a…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 125 (Migne)

    postolum, Petitis et non accipitis, eo quod male petitis, ut in concupiscentiis vestris consumatis (Jac. IV, 3) . Qui talia contra canones sacros praesumit, si gradum ecclesiasticum videtur habere, eo privari vel ab ecclesiastica communione separari est dignus. Secundum regulam…

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