James 4:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.

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  • John 16:24 : 24 Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioye may be full.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, & reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and ye shall finde: knocke, and it shall be opened vnto you. 8 For whosoeuer asketh, receiueth: and he, that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you. 10 For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: & to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened. 11 If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? Or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent? 12 Or if hee aske an egge, will hee giue him a scorpion? 13 If yee then which are euill, can giue good giftes vnto your children, howe much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Ghost to them, that desire him?
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction. 10 For the desire of money is the roote of all euill, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with many sorowes.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes. 4 Behold, the hire of ye labourers, which haue reaped your fieldes (which is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth, and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
  • John 4:10 : 10 Iesus answered and saide vnto her, If thou knewest that gift of God, and who it is that saieth to thee, Giue mee drinke, thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee woulde haue giuen thee, water of life.
  • Prov 1:19 : 19 Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.
  • Isa 7:12 : 12 But Ahaz sayd, I wil not aske, neither will I tempt the Lord.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yea, in deede the proude man is as hee that transgresseth by wine: therefore shal he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, and is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:3-5
    3 verses
    90%

    3Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

    4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.

    5Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?

  • Jas 4:1
    86%

    1From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?

  • Gal 5:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.

  • Jas 1:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.

    15Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.

  • Jas 3:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    14But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

    15This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.

    16For where enuying and strife is, there is sedition, and all maner of euill workes.

  • Jas 5:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.

    6Ye haue condemned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.

  • 1 John 2:16
    68%

    16For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    68%

    5And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

  • Jas 1:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect & entier, lacking nothing.

    5If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, & reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.

  • Jas 1:7
    67%

    7Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.

  • Heb 12:4
    67%

    4Ye haue not yet resisted vnto blood, striuing against sinne.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
    67%

    3For yee are yet carnall: for whereas there is among you enuying, and strife, and diuisions, are ye not carnall, and walke as men?

  • Jas 4:13-16
    4 verses
    67%

    13Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,

    14(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

    15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.

    16But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

  • Matt 7:7
    66%

    7Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and ye shall finde: knocke, and it shall be opened vnto you.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
    66%

    12That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Nowe therefore there is altogether infirmitie in you, in that yee goe to lawe one with another: why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather susteine yee not harme?

    8Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren.

  • Gen 4:7
    66%

    7If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sinne lieth at the doore: also vnto thee his desire shalbe subiect, and thou shalt rule ouer him.

  • Jas 2:11
    66%

    11For he that saide, Thou shalt not commit adulterie, saide also, Thou shalt not kill. Nowe though thou doest none adulterie, yet if thou killest, thou art a transgressour of the Lawe.

  • John 5:40
    66%

    40But ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.

  • Jas 2:4
    66%

    4Are yee not partiall in your selues, and are become iudges of euill thoughts?

  • Matt 6:8
    66%

    8Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye haue neede, before ye aske of him.

  • Luke 11:9
    66%

    9And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

  • Jas 5:9
    65%

    9Grudge not one against another, brethren, least ye be condemned: behold, the iudge standeth before the doore.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    65%

    9For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

  • Col 3:5
    65%

    5Mortifie therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, vncleannes, the inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnes which is idolatrie.

  • 1 Cor 4:8
    65%

    8Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rich: ye reigne as kings without vs, and would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you.

  • Luke 12:29-31
    3 verses
    65%

    29Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shal drinke, neither hag you in suspense.

    30For all such things the people of the world seeke for: and your Father knoweth that ye haue neede of these things.

    31But rather seeke ye after the kingdome of God, and all these things shalbe cast vpon you.

  • Gal 5:26
    65%

    26Let vs not be desirous of vaine glorie, prouoking one another, enuying one another.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    65%

    4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • Prov 21:25
    65%

    25The desire of the slouthfull slayeth him: for his hands refuse to worke.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    64%

    2And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.

  • Hos 4:2
    64%

    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Rom 7:7
    64%

    7What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

  • 1 Pet 2:11
    64%

    11Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, absteine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,

  • Isa 58:4
    64%

    4Beholde, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickednesse: ye shall not fast as ye doe to day, to make your voyce to be heard aboue.

  • Prov 13:4
    64%

    4The sluggard lusteth, but his soule hath nought: but the soule of the diligent shall haue plentie.