James 4:2

Tree of Life Version

You crave and have not. You murder and you envy, yet you cannot get it. You fight and you wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:6

Then he told her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and asked him: ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or if it pleases you, I’ll give you another vineyard for it,’ but he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all gaining by violence. It takes the life of its possessor.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one who has no one else, neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to all his toil. His eyes are not content with riches. “So, for whom am I toiling, and depriving myself of prosperity?” This too is meaningless— a grievous task!

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask—I wouldn’t test Adonai!”

Habakkuk 2:5

Indeed, because this wine betrays, a proud man never rests. He enlarges his desire like Sheol, Like death, he is never satisfied. So he gathers to himself all nations, and collects all peoples for himself.

John 16:24

Up to now, you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.

John 4:10

Yeshua replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is 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, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

James 5:6

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

1 John 3:15

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