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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jam 4:2 — Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Jam 5:1 |
Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. |
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Jam 5:2 |
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. |
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Jam 5:3 |
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. |
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Jam 5:4 |
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. |
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Jam 5:5 |
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. |
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Pro 1:19 |
So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
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Ecc 4:8 |
There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail. |
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Hab 2:5 |
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: |
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1Ti 6:9 |
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. |
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1Ti 6:10 |
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. |
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Jam 1:5 |
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. |
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Isa 7:12 |
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. |
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Mat 7:7 |
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: |
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Mat 7:8 |
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. |
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Luk 11:9 |
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. |
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Luk 11:10 |
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. |
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Luk 11:11 |
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? |
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Luk 11:12 |
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? |
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Luk 11:13 |
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? |
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Jhn 4:10 |
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. |
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Jhn 16:24 |
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "James 4:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jam/4/2.html>.
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