James 4:2

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

Cross References

John 16:24

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.

James 1:5

If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

John 4:10

And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.

Proverbs 1:19

So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.

Habakkuk 2:5

And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.

Isaiah 7:12

And Ahaz will say, I will not ask and I will not tempt Jehovah.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not.

1 John 3:15

Every one hating his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no man-slayer has eternal life remaining in him.

1 Kings 21:6

And he will speak to her, Because I shall speak to Naboth the Jezreelite and say to him, Thou shalt give to me thy vineyard for silver; or if thou art willing, I will give to thee a vineyard in its stead. And he will say, I will not give to thee my vineyard.