James 4:3 · WEB
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
— James 4:3
Era
Apostolic Era (~50 AD)
Emotion
deciding
Type
teaching
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
prayermotivesselfish desires
This verse is part of James 4. The full chapter reveals the story around it.
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