 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.  The Eclectic Review - Página 563editado por - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Andrew Gray - 1839 - 508 páginas
...cursed end that we propose to ourselves in going about that duty ; that is clear in James iv. 3, Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. O ! that woeful idolatry that Christians do entertain in the exercise of prayer. That... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1840 - 270 páginas
...things for thyself, seek them not—make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof—ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts." Are those whose spiritual growth is stayed by earthly care and their prayers for peace unanswered,... | |
 | Thomas Manton - 1840 - 478 páginas
...never inquire after the will of God, or communicate their purpose to him in prayer, VEBSE 3. — Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. In this verse he anticipateth and preventeth an objection. They might say, We do ask,... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 páginas
...to satisfy your wishes, or you ask of God in such a spirit as can obtain no return from Him. 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... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1841 - 278 páginas
...for thyself, seek them not — make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof — ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts." Are those whose spiritual growth is stayed by earthly care and their prayers for peace unanswered,... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1841 - 682 páginas
...abhorrence of hypocrisy in every branch of his worship. Which is the meaning of this passage in James : " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (r) It is true, indeed, (as we shall presently again see,) that the prayers of the... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - 1841 - 416 páginas
...the things we ask that God may be glorified, but that it may minister to our own gratification. " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." When we ask with such motives, we have no right to expect that God will hear our... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1841 - 546 páginas
...He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand : he loveth to oppress. (8) James iv. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume // upon your lusts. in the use of lawful means, may of his frae gift, and as to his Fatherly wisdom... | |
 | 1842 - 368 páginas
...matters of trade and property that James spoke, when he said, " Ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not. because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts." James iv. 2, 3. The Christian does ask for prosperity, not that he may consume God's blessing on his... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1842 - 552 páginas
...opposite spirit as prevailing among professing Christians, and breathing in their very prayers, — " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts." In reference, again, to our spiritual wants, we are often lamentably ignorant of their nature and extent... | |
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