James 4:2

American King James Version (1999)

You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:6

And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither said he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a sore travail.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

Habakkuk 2:5

Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all people:

John 16:24

Till now have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

James 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him.

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.

1 John 3:15

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.