Verse (Click for Chapter) GOD'S WORD® Translation You want what you don't have, so you commit murder. You're determined to have things, but you can't get what you want. You quarrel and fight. You don't have the things you want, because you don't pray for them. American Standard Version Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. Berean Study Bible You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. Douay-Rheims Bible You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not. English Revised Version Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. King James Bible 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. World English Bible You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. Young's Literal Translation ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; James 4:2 Additional Translations ... Links James 4:2 NIVJames 4:2 NLT James 4:2 ESV James 4:2 NASB James 4:2 NKJV James 4:2 KJV |