James 4:3
You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.
1 John 3:22
and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we are laying his commands to heart, and are doing what is pleasing in his sight.
Matthew 20:22
"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."
Mark 10:38
"You do not know what you are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? or receive the baptism that I am to receive?"
Luke 15:13
A few days later the younger son got together all that he had, and went away into a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance by leading a dissolute life.
Luke 15:30
But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.'
Luke 16:1-2
Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.
James 1:6-7
But let him ask with confidence, never doubting; for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven hither and thither at the mercy of the wind--
James 4:1
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?