asking for help
What does the Bible say about asking for help? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.
2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
1A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me. 2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3May he not allow your foot to be moved, and may he not slumber, who guards you. 4Behold, he who guards Israel will neither sleep, nor slumber. 5The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your protection, above your right hand. 6The sun will not burn you by day, nor the moon by night.
28Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.
16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.
16Thus says the Lord: “Let your voice cease from crying and your eyes from tears. For there is a reward for your work, says the Lord. And they will return from the land of the enemy.
10Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.
2You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
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.