James 4:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

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  • John 16:24 : 24 till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; 8 for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; 10 for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. 11 `And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him? 12 and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion? 13 If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you'; 2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; 3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! 4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; 5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
  • John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
  • Prov 1:19 : 19 So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
  • Isa 7:12 : 12 And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 And also, because the wine `is' treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:3-5
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    3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.

    4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

    5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

  • Jas 4:1
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    1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

    17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

  • Jas 1:14-15
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    14 and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

    15 afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

  • Jas 3:14-16
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    14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

    15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

    16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

  • Jas 5:5-6
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    5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

    6 ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • Jas 1:4-5
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    4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

    5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

  • Jas 1:7
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    7 for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --

  • Heb 12:4
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    4 Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

  • Jas 4:13-16
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    67%

    13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

    14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

    15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

    16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    66%

    7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

    8 but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

  • Gen 4:7
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    7 Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

  • Jas 2:11
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    11 for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

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

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

  • Matt 6:8
    66%

    8 be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

  • Luke 11:9
    66%

    9 and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

  • Jas 5:9
    65%

    9 murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    65%

    9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

  • Col 3:5
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    5 Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

  • 1 Cor 4:8
    65%

    8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

  • Luke 12:29-31
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    29 `And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

    30 for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

    31 but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

  • Gal 5:26
    65%

    26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Prov 21:25
    65%

    25 The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    64%

    2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

  • Hos 4:2
    64%

    2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

  • Rom 7:7
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    7 What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

  • Isa 58:4
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    4 Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as `to'-day, To sound in the high place your voice.

  • Prov 13:4
    64%

    4 The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.