James 4:2

The Scriptures 2009

You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and are unable to obtain. You strive and fight, and you do not possess, because you do not ask.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:6

And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naḇoth the Yizre‛ĕlite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I give you another vineyard for it.’ But he answered, ‘I do not give you my vineyard.’ ”

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Isaiah 7:12

But Aḥaz said, “I do not ask nor try יהוה!”

Habakkuk 2:5

“And also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as She’ol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples.

John 16:24

“Until now you have asked naught in My Name. Ask, and you shall receive, in order that your joy might be complete.

John 4:10

יהושע answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to 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 Elohim, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous – he does not resist you.

1 John 3:15

Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him.