James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 3:22

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?"

Luke 15:13

Not many days after, the younger son gathered together all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

Luke 16:1-2

He also said to his disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.

James 1:6-7

But he must ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

James 4:1

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at 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 he must ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?"
1 John 3:22
and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered together all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.
Luke 16:1
He also said to his disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

General references

Luke 11:10
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
James 1:7
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,