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?