But Jesus said to them, "Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?"

and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him.

And this is the confidence which we have toward Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us;

Ye may

And, not many days after, gathering all things together, the younger son went abroad into a far country, and there wasted his estate, living riotously.

And He said also to His disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused to him as squandering his goods.

Lusts

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

General references

for every one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.

For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;