James 4:3
or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
1 John 5:14
And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.
1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.
Matthew 20:22
"None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.
Mark 10:38
"You know not," said He, "what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?"
Luke 15:13
No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
Luke 15:30
but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'
Luke 16:1-2
He said also to His disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him, that he was wasting his property.
James 1:6-7
But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray.
James 4:1
What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?