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?

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 and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray.
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?"
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.
1 John 5:14
And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.

Ye may

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 16:1
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.

Lusts

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?

General references

Luke 11:10
For every one who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.
James 1:7
A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord--