James 4:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² 1 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² 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

² 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

1 And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them:

Proverbs 1:19

6 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

5 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Isaiah 7:12

0 In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.

Habakkuk 2:5

3 Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

John 16:24

2 Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

John 4:10

8 For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.

James 1:5

4 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

James 5:6

5 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

1 John 3:15

4 And he that keepeth his commandments, abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.