Bible Cross References
lust
James 5:1-5
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And now, you rich people, listen to me! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you!
2
Your riches have rotted away, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
3
Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and this rust will be a witness against you and will eat up your flesh like fire. You have piled up riches in these last days.
4
You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.
5
Your life here on earth has been full of luxury and pleasure. You have made yourselves fat for the day of slaughter.
Proverbs 1:19
Robbery always claims the life of the robber---this is what happens to anyone who lives by violence.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
Here is someone who lives alone. He has no son, no brother, yet he is always working, never satisfied with the wealth he has. For whom is he working so hard and denying himself any pleasure? This is useless, too---and a miserable way to live.
Habakkuk 2:5
Wealth is deceitful. Greedy people are proud and restless---like death itself they are never satisfied. That is why they conquer nation after nation for themselves.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.
because
James 1:5
But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all.
Isaiah 7:12
Ahaz answered, "I will not ask for a sign. I refuse to put the LORD to the test."
Matthew 7:7
"Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to those who knock.
Luke 11:9-13
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And so I say to you: Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
10
For those who ask will receive, and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks.
11
Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish?
12
Or would you give him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
13
As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
John 4:10
Jesus answered, "If you only knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water."
John 16:24
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.