James 4:3

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us.

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed? They said to him: We are able.

Mark 10:38

Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed?

Luke 15:13

And not many days after, the younger son, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this your son has come, Who has eaten up your estate with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

Luke 16:1-2

And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his goods.

James 1:6-7

But let him ask in faith, doubting not: for he that doubts, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and tossed.

James 4:1

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Lusts

General references

Bible References

Ask, and

James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, doubting not: for he that doubts, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and tossed.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered and said: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed? They said to him: We are able.
Mark 10:38
Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed?
1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
And not many days after, the younger son, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.
Luke 16:1
And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

General references

Luke 11:10
For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.
James 1:7
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.