wishing
What does the Bible say about wishing? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
3I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
17And he is before all, and in him all things continue.
11And who can know the things that are of a man, except the spirit which is within that man? So also, no one knows the things which are of God, except the Spirit of God.
14For this reason, the Lord himself will grant to you a sign. Behold, a virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
1“So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth. 2And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts. 3Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep. 5Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses. 6Blessed shall you be entering and departing.
5May he grant to you according to your heart, and confirm all your counsels.
3knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he came from God and was going to God,
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.