Because ye ask amiss (διοτ κακως αιτεισθε). Here the indirect middle does make sense, "ye ask for yourselves" and that is "evilly"…

You ask, and receive not. That is, some of you ask, or you ask on some occasions. Though generally seeking what you desire by strife and w…

You lust, and have not . . .—It is better this way: You desire, and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; …

The lusts of the flesh come in and put us on the wrong track; or if we take the right road, yet, if the lusts are there, God will not bless us beca…

Even when James’s readers did ask God for things, they did “not receive” what they requested. Why? They asked “with wrong motives.” Their purpose w…

Ye seek and receive not. He goes further: though they sought, yet they were deservedly denied, because they wished to make God the ministe…

You ask, and receive not
Some there were that did ask of God the blessings of his goodness and providence, and yet t…

Since all wars and fighting come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in our members. Worldly and fl…