James 4:3

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence, which we have towards Him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, He heareth us:

1 John 3:22

and whatsoever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask: are ye able to drink of the cup which I am going to drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

Mark 10:38

But Jesus said unto 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 not many days after the younger son gathered all together and went abroad into a distant country, and there squandered away his substance by living luxuriously.

Luke 15:30

but as soon as this thy son was come, who hath eaten up 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 of 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 blown about and tossed by the wind.

James 4:1

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

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 blown about and tossed by the wind.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask: are ye able to drink of the cup which I am going to drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said unto 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 from Him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence, which we have towards Him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, He heareth us:

Ye may

Luke 15:13
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and went abroad into a distant country, and there squandered away his substance by living luxuriously.
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 of wasting his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

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 that ye be not destroyed by one another.
James 1:7
Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.