Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Ask, and
Ye may
Lusts
General references
Bible References
Ask, and
James 1:6
But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
Job 27:8 “For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requireshis life?
When God requires
Job 35:12 “There they cry out, but He does not answer
Because of the pride of evil men.
Because of the pride of evil men.
Psalm 18:41 They cried for help, but there was none to save,
Even to the Lord, butHe did not answer them.
Even to the Lord, but
Psalm 66:18 If I regard wickedness in my heart,
TheLord will not hear;
The
Proverbs 1:28 “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They willseek me diligently but they will not find me,
They will
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
Butthe prayer of the upright is His delight.
But
Proverbs 21:13 He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not beanswered.
Will also cry himself and not be
Isaiah 1:15 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though youmultiply prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.
Yes, even though you
I will not listen.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence.”
Micah 3:4 Then they will cry out to the Lord,
But He will not answer them.
Instead, He willhide His face from them at that time
Because they havepracticed evil deeds.
But He will not answer them.
Instead, He will
Because they have
Zechariah 7:13
And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts;
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They *said to Him, “We are able.”
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
1 John 3:22
and whatever 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
This is the confidence which we have before 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 went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.
Luke 16:1
Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.
Lusts
James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
General references
Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
James 1:7
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,