James 4:3

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

1 John 5:14

Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Matthew 20:22

"None of you know what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.

Mark 10:38

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

Luke 15:13

"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

Luke 15:30

"'But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with harlots, you have killed him the fatted calf.'

Luke 16:1-2

To his disciples he said: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property.

James 1:6-7

But let him ask in faith, without wavering; for he who wavers is like a surge of the sea, wind-driven and tossed.

James 4:1

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily 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, without wavering; for he who wavers is like a surge of the sea, wind-driven and tossed.
Matthew 20:22
"None of you know what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.
Mark 10:38
"You know not what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:14
Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.
Luke 16:1
To his disciples he said: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property.

Lusts

James 4:1
Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

General references

Luke 11:10
"For he that asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door shall be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.
James 1:7
Such a man need not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,