James 4:2 - The Scriptures 1998

You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and are unable to obtain. You strive and fight, and you do not possess, because you do not ask.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [I John 3:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Common English Bible

You long for something you don’t have, so you commit murder. You are jealous for something you can’t get, so you struggle and fight. You don’t have because you don’t ask.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

James 4:2 Cross References

1 Kings 21:6

And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naḇ

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Isaiah 7:12

But Aḥ

Habakkuk 2:5

“And also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as the grave, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples.

John 16:24

“Until now you have asked naught in My Name. Ask, and you shall receive, in order that your joy might be complete.

John 4:10

יהושע  answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of Elohim, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous – he does not resist you.

1 John 3:15

Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him.