3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. …
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I. The apostle here reproves the Jewish Christians for their wars, and for their lusts as the cause of them: Whence co…
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