James 4:3

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

1 John 5:14

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

1 John 3:22

and whatsoever we may ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things pleasing before him.

Matthew 20:22

And Jesus responding said, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to Him, We are able.

Mark 10:38

And Jesus said to them, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink? and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?

Luke 15:13

And not many days afterward the younger son gathering all together, departed into a far-off country; and there wasted his substance living riotously.

Luke 15:30

but when this thy son, the one devouring thy living with harlots came, thou hast slain for him the fatted calf.

Luke 16:1-2

And He also spoke to His disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as wasting his goods.

James 1:6-7

But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.

James 4:1

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring 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 as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.
Matthew 20:22
And Jesus responding said, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to Him, We are able.
Mark 10:38
And Jesus said to them, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink? and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?
1 John 3:22
and whatsoever we may ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things pleasing before him.
1 John 5:14
And this is the assurance which we have toward him, that, if we may ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
And not many days afterward the younger son gathering all together, departed into a far-off country; and there wasted his substance living riotously.
Luke 16:1
And He also spoke to His disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as wasting his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

General references

Luke 11:10
For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you may not be consumed one of another.
James 1:7
For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,