 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 Christian Advocate - Page 4951832Full view - About this book
 | James Hamilton - Prayer - 1847 - 184 pages
...personal gain ; and instead of a blessing his prayer was answered with a curse. " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."* Even spiritual mercies are refused to you, because you would employ them on carnal ends. 4. Such a... | |
 | William Gibbons - Hicksites - 1847 - 218 pages
...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. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? Whosoever,... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - Sermons, Scottish - 1847 - 580 pages
...dear believers. Often you do not receive, because you do not ask aright : " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Often you ask proudly, as if you were somebody; so that if Christ were to grant it. he would only be... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Bishops - 1847 - 578 pages
...No reckonings to make when they are dead. [chap. 4. 3.] " Ye ask (saith St. James), and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." And is it not a mercy not to be heard, when men make such petitions ? [Matt. 6. And does not God indeed... | |
 | William Gibbons - Hicksites - 1847 - 218 pages
...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. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? Whosoever,... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 480 pages
...dear believers. Often you do not receive, because you do not ask aright : " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Often you ask proudly, as if you were somebody ; so that if Christ were to grant it, he would only... | |
 | John Dunlavy - 1847 - 522 pages
...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. Ye adulterers and adulteresses." (Jas. iv. 1-3.) "For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1848 - 670 pages
...to people's hands are wasted on their lusts, to satisfy their cravings. " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Thus the Lord is dishonoured, by the abusing of his good creatures to gluttony, drunkenness, prodigality,... | |
 | 1848 - 554 pages
...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 enmity with God ?... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pages
...dear believers. Often you do not receive, because you do not ask aright : " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Often you ask proudly, as if you were somebody ; so that if Christ were to grant it, he would only... | |
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