James 4:2

New King James Version

You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:6

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 pleases 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 everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, without companion: He has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his labors, Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. But he never asks, “For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?” This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!”

Habakkuk 2:5

“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.

John 16:24

Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will 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 who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the just; 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.