 | 1842 - 1046 pages
...purpose of being applied to a right object, and always in entire submission to the will of God. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. But may we always, in every case, when our prayer is acceptable, expect the very thing... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1842 - 518 pages
...purpose of being applied to a right object, and always in entire submission to the will of God. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. The mother of Augustine was a woman of devoted piety, but her son was a youth of wild... | |
 | 1842 - 508 pages
...purpose of being applied to a right object, and always in entire submission to the will of God. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. But may we always, in every case, when our prayer is acceptable, expect the very thing... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. — James i. 5 — 7. Ye have not, because ye ask not; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts", (or pleasures.) — James iv. 2, 3. Is any among you afflicted ? let him pray, &c.... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1843 - 474 pages
...they pray for; and then it is no wonder they are not heard, as St. James observes, James 4.3. " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." And besides, none can pray aright in Christ's Name, without the assistance of His... | |
 | Félix Neff - 1843 - 514 pages
...kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ash not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." ' The pursuit of the things of the world, causes quarrels and jealousies. Instead... | |
 | Philemon Stewart - 1843 - 440 pages
...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. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1845 - 760 pages
...but declares that he abominates pretence in every part of his service. Hence the words of James, " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts," (James iv. 3.) It is true, indeed, (as we shall again see in a little,) that the... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 pages
...and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye are all partakers of my grace. Jam. 4. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Jam. 5. 16. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias... | |
 | Samuel R. Fisher - 1844 - 364 pages
...that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according \o his will, heheareth us. James iv. 3 — Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts, 4. In order to offer acceptable pray er to God, we must rightly and thoroughly know... | |
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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. 
