Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Ask, and

James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
Job 35:12
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Psalm 18:41
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Proverbs 1:28
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:13
Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Isaiah 1:15
And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer a burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Micah 3:4
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves in an evil way in their deeds.
Zechariah 7:13
Therefore it has come to pass, that just as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said unto him, We are able.
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said unto them, You know not what you ask: can you 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 of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:

Ye may

Luke 15:13
And not many days later the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke 16:1
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

General references

Luke 11:10
For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.
James 1:7
For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.