James 4:2

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

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  • John 16:24 : 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 11 And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent? 12 Or [if] he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? 13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
  • John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
  • Prov 1:19 : 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [saith he], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
  • Isa 7:12 : 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:3-5
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    3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.

    4Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

    5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

  • Jas 4:1
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    1Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

  • Jas 1:14-15
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    14but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

    15Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

  • Jas 3:14-16
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    14But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

    15This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

    16For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

  • Jas 5:5-6
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    5Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

    6Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

  • Jas 1:4-5
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    4And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

    5But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

  • Heb 12:4
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    4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    13Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

    14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

    15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

    16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

  • Matt 7:7
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    7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

    8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.

  • Gen 4:7
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    7If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.

  • Jas 2:11
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    11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

  • John 5:40
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    40and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Matt 6:8
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    8Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

  • Luke 11:9
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    9And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

  • Jas 5:9
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    9Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Col 3:5
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    5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

  • 1 Cor 4:8
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    8Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

    30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

    31Yet seek ye his kingdom, and these things shall be added unto you.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Prov 21:25
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    25The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • Isa 58:4
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    4Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.