James 4:2

World Messianic Bible British Edition

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t 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.’ 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 who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labour and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt the LORD.”

Habakkuk 2:5

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to 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 made full.

John 4:10

Yeshua answered 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

But 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 and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

1 John 3:15

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