James 4:3

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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

But he must ask with faith, and without any doubt, for the man who doubts is like the billowing sea, driven and blown about by the wind.

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for! Can you drink what I am going to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink what I am drinking, or undergo the baptism that I am undergoing?"

and we obtain from him whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.

And we have confidence in him, that if we ask him for anything that is in accordance with his will, he will listen to us.

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

And he said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this man was squandering his property.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.

Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.