ask and you shall receive

²⁴For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.

⁷Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

³You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

²²And all things whatsoever that you shall ask for in prayer: believing, you shall receive.”

⁷Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened. ⁹Or what man is there among you, who, if his son were to ask him for bread, would offer him a stone; ¹⁰or if he were to ask him for a fish, would offer him a snake? ¹¹Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?

⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

¹³And whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you shall ask anything of me in my name, that I will do.

²⁴Until now, you have not requested anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, so that your joy may be full.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. ⁷And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.

⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

¹³Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?”

¹Now he also told them a parable, that we should continually pray and not cease, ²saying: “There was a certain judge in a certain city, who did not fear God and did not respect man. ³But there was a certain widow in that city, and she went to him, saying, ‘Vindicate me from my adversary.’ ⁴And he refused to do so for a long time. But afterwards, he said within himself: ‘Even though I do not fear God, nor respect man, ⁵yet because this widow is pestering me, I will vindicate her, lest by returning, she may, in the end, wear me out.’ ” ⁶Then the Lord said: “Listen to what the unjust judge said.

⁵Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”