Bible Cross References
lust
James 5:1-5
1
Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!
2
Your riches have decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
3
Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days.
4
Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5
You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Proverbs 1:19
These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one [alone], and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother: yet there is no end to all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with wealth. And for whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, and an evil trouble.
Habakkuk 2:5
But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some [by] aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
because
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
Isaiah 7:12
And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
Matthew 7:7
"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 7:8
For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.
Luke 11:9-13
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"So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
10
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11
And which father among you, if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or [if he asks for] a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
12
Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
13
If you then, being evil, know [how] to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"
John 4:10
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water."
John 16:24
Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.