But let him ask with confidence, never doubting; for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven hither and thither at the mercy of the wind--

"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."

"You do not know what you are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? or receive the baptism that I am to receive?"

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we are laying his commands to heart, and are doing what is pleasing in his sight.

And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.

Ye may

A few days later the younger son got together all that he had, and went away into a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance by leading a dissolute life.

Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.

Lusts

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

General references

For he that asks receives, he that searches finds, and to him that knocks the door shall be opened.

But, if you are continually wounding and preying upon one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.

Such a man must not expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,