James 4:2

New American Bible - revised edition

You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:6

He answered her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard, or, if you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in exchange.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

Proverbs 1:19

This is the way of everyone greedy for loot: it takes away their lives.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

those all alone with no companion, with neither child nor sibling—with no end to all their toil, and no satisfaction from riches. For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things? This also is vanity and a bad business.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz answered, “I will not ask! I will not tempt the Lord!”

Habakkuk 2:5

Indeed wealth is treacherous; a proud man does not succeed. He who opens wide his throat like Sheol, and is insatiable as death, Who gathers to himself all the nations, and collects for himself all the peoples—

John 16:24

Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it.

James 5:6

You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance. Patience and Oaths.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.