James 4:2
You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 1:5
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.
Proverbs 1:19
Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
Isaiah 7:12
But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test."
Habakkuk 2:5
{How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.
Matthew 7:7-8
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.
Luke 11:9-13
And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.
John 4:10
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me [water] to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
John 16:24
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.
James 5:1-5
Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!