James 4:2

A Conservative Version

Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask.

Cross References

John 16:24

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

James 1:5

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou had known the gift of God, and who it is who says to thee, Give me to drink, thou would have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I challenge LORD.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

1 John 3:15

Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 Kings 21:6

And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money, or else, if it please thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it. And he answered, I will not give thee my vineyar