Jas.4.3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Jas.4.3

And why not? Because you know you'd be asking for what you have no right to. You're spoiled children, each wanting your own way.

Jas.4.3

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Jas.4.3

And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.