And Jesus said to them, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink? and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?

and whatsoever we may ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things pleasing before him.

And this is the assurance which we have toward him, that, if we may ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Ye may

And not many days afterward the younger son gathering all together, departed into a far-off country; and there wasted his substance living riotously.

And He also spoke to His disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as wasting his goods.

Lusts

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

General references

For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you may not be consumed one of another.

For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,