James 1:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, so that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of yours?”

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Exodus 31:3

and I have filled him with a divine spirit, with ability, intelligence, and knowledge, and every kind of skill,

Exodus 31:6

Moreover, I have appointed with him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and I have given skill to all the skillful, so that they may make all that I have commanded you:

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Matthew 11:20

Then he began to reproach the cities in which most of his deeds of power had been done because they did not repent.

Mark 16:14

Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

John 14:13

I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 15:7

If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 4:10

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

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one group a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is qualified for these things?

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

1 John 3:22

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.