James 4:3
You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him: if we ask for anything according to his will, he listens to us.
1 John 3:22
Whatever we request we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Psalm 18:41
They cried out for deliverance, but there was no one to deliver; they cried out to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
Job 27:8-10
For where is the hope of the godless when he is eliminated; when God takes away his life?
Job 35:12
"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.
Psalm 66:18-19
Were I to cherish iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not listen to me.
Proverbs 1:28
"Then they will call out to me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever refuses to hear the cry of the poor will also cry himself, but he won't be answered.
Proverbs 21:27
What the wicked person sacrifices is detestable how much more when he offers it with vile motives!
Isaiah 1:15-16
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I'll hide my eyes from you. Even though you pray repeatedly, I won't listen. Your hands are full of blood, your fingers drenched with iniquity."
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to bring disaster on them from which they won't be able to escape. They'll cry out to me, but I won't listen to them.
Jeremiah 11:14
"Jeremiah, don't pray for this people and don't cry or pray for them. I won't listen when they cry out to me because of their disaster.
Jeremiah 14:12
Although they fast, I won't listen to their cry, and although they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I won't accept them. Instead, I'll put an end to them with the sword, with famine, and with a plague."
Micah 3:4
"Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not listen to them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they were so wicked in what they were doing."
Zechariah 7:13
Therefore, just as when I cried out and they would not listen, so also they will cry out, and I will not listen,' says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
Matthew 20:22
Jesus replied, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?" They told him, "We can."
Mark 10:38
But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"
Luke 15:13
A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.
Luke 15:30
But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!'
Luke 16:1-2
Now Jesus was saying to the disciples, "A rich man had a servant manager who was accused of wasting his assets.
James 1:6-7
But he must ask in faith, without any doubts, for the one who has doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
James 4:1
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?