But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask: are ye able to drink of the cup which I am going to drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup, that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

and whatsoever 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, which we have towards Him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, He heareth us:

Ye may

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and went abroad into a distant country, and there squandered away his substance by living luxuriously.

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 fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

General references

For every one that 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 destroyed by one another.

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