James 4:3

You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask for anything that is in accordance with His will, He will listen to us.

1 John 3:22

and we obtain from Him whatever we ask for, because we practice obedience to His commands and do what pleases Him.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

Mark 10:38

Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"

Luke 15:13

Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours arrives, who has eaten up your property with immoral women, you have killed for him the fattening calf.'

Luke 16:1-2

Now He was saying to the disciples: "Once there was a rich man who had a household manager, and he was accused to his master of squandering the latter's property.

James 1:6-7

But he must ask in faith, without a doubt, for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is whirled and swayed by the wind.

James 4:1

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

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 he must ask in faith, without a doubt, for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is whirled and swayed by the wind.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."
Mark 10:38
Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"
1 John 3:22
and we obtain from Him whatever we ask for, because we practice obedience to His commands and do what pleases Him.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask for anything that is in accordance with His will, He will listen to us.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.
Luke 16:1
Now He was saying to the disciples: "Once there was a rich man who had a household manager, and he was accused to his master of squandering the latter's property.

Lusts

James 4:1
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

General references

Luke 11:10
For everyone who keeps on asking, receives; and the one who keeps on seeking, finds; and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.
Galatians 5:15
But if you continue to bite and eat one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.
James 1:7
Such a man, indeed, a person with two minds,