James 4:3

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

1 John 3:22

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink of, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

Luke 15:13

And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this thy son was come, who hath devoured thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Luke 16:1-2

And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.

James 1:6-7

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed.

James 4:1

From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war 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, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink of, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
1 John 3:22
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.
Luke 16:1
And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

General references

Luke 11:10
For every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed ye be not consumed one of another.
James 1:7
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.