James 4:2

World English Bible (2000)

You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • John 16:24 : 24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
  • Jas 1:5 : 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.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • John 4:10 : 10 Jesus 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."
  • Prov 1:19 : 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
  • Isa 7:12 : 12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh."
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jas 4:3-5
    3 verses
    90%

    3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

    4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

  • Jas 4:1
    86%

    1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

  • Gal 5:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

  • Jas 1:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

    15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

  • Jas 3:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

    15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

    16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

  • Jas 5:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

    6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • 1 John 2:16
    68%

    16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    68%

    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

  • Jas 1:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

    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.

  • Jas 1:7
    67%

    7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

  • Heb 12:4
    67%

    4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

  • 1 Cor 3:3
    67%

    3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

  • Jas 4:13-16
    4 verses
    67%

    13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

    14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

    15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

    16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Matt 7:7
    66%

    7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
    66%

    12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
    2 verses
    66%

    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

  • Gen 4:7
    66%

    7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

  • Jas 2:11
    66%

    11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • John 5:40
    66%

    40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

  • Jas 2:4
    66%

    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Matt 6:8
    66%

    8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

  • Luke 11:9
    66%

    9 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

  • Jas 5:9
    65%

    9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    65%

    9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Col 3:5
    65%

    5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

  • 1 Cor 4:8
    65%

    8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

  • Luke 12:29-31
    3 verses
    65%

    29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

    30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

    31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

  • Gal 5:26
    65%

    26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    65%

    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • Prov 21:25
    65%

    25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    64%

    2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Hos 4:2
    64%

    2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

  • Rom 7:7
    64%

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

  • 1 Pet 2:11
    64%

    11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • Isa 58:4
    64%

    4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

  • Prov 13:4
    64%

    4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.