But Jesus answered and said: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed? They said to him: We are able.

Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed?

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

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us.

Ye may

And not many days after, the younger son, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.

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

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

General references

For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.