Translations
When you do ask, you don't receive because you ask with selfish motives — wanting only to satisfy your own cravings.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with corrupt intent — to squander it on your pleasures.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

