Then Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I am going to drink, and be baptised with the baptism with which I am baptised? They say unto him, We are able.

Then Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup which I drink? and be baptised with the baptism with which I am baptised?

And whatsoever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And this is the confidence that we have towards him, that whatsoever we ask according to his will, he heareth us.

Ye may

And not many days after, the younger son, collecting his all, travelled into a far distant country, and there dissipated his substance in a life of debauchery.

THEN said he also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he received an information against him, as having dissipated his treasures.

Lusts

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

General references

For every one who asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed by one another.

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