 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
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...lusts that war in your members ? Ye desire, and 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 ?"*... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 698 pages
...lust* that war in your members ? Ye desire, and 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 ?"*... | |
 | Christianity - 1833 - 588 pages
...implore spiritual blessings, will he grant tlie very things which they seek. " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Here it is plain that pride and selfishness are the obstacles ; this is not asking in the manner enjoined.... | |
 | Chauncey Lee - Election (Theology) - 1833 - 238 pages
...solves the difficulty in the same Terse, — assigns the reason, and shows the consistency sought — " because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." They asked with selfish desire7, and this is the asking of regenerate sinners invariably, and therefore... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 708 pages
...lusts that war in your members ? Ye desire, and 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 ?"*... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1833 - 240 pages
...principle, James explained the unanswered prayers of the Jewish converts : Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." James iv. 3. Whoever, therefore, seeks mercy or grace for unholy, or not for holy, purposes, is sure... | |
 | Charles Grandison Finney - Evangelistic work - 1835 - 446 pages
...prayed for it, and it does not come ? It is because you do not pray aright. " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." You do not pray from right motives. A professor"of religion, and a principal member in a church, once... | |
 | James Slade - 1835 - 578 pages
...success of their prayers; "ye * Matt. xxi. 22. f 1 Tim. ii. 8. £ Ps. xxvi. 6. ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts;"* ye ask in a worldly frame and temper, and for worldly purposes, not with a single desire of godliness... | |
 | Seth Williston - New England theology - 1836 - 664 pages
...defective nature of the prayers which they would offer. It is written, " Ye ask, and ye receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Again it is written, " He that turneth away his car from hearing the law," (and this is done by every... | |
 | John Harris - Avarice - 1836 - 352 pages
...James evidently identifies it with adultery. " Ye covet, and have 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,... | |
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