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, driven with the wind and tossed.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink of, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to 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 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 which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us.

Ye may

Luke 15:13
And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.
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 as wasting his goods.

Lusts

James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

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 ye be not consumed one of another.
James 1:7
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.