Matthew 7:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ For every person who asks will [certainly] receive; and the one who looks will [certainly] find; and to the person who knocks, the door will [certainly] be opened.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Common English Bible

⁸ For everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door is opened.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Matthew 7:8 Cross References

Matthew 7:7

“Ask [God for something] and it will be given to you; look [to God for something] and you will find it; knock [on the door of opportunity] and it will be opened up to you.

Matthew 7:9

Or, what person among you would give his son a stone if he asked you for a piece of bread?

Luke 11:10

For every person who asks will [certainly] receive; and the one who looks will [certainly] find; and to the person who knocks, the door will [certainly] be opened up.

John 2:2

and Jesus and His disciples had been invited to it also.

Acts 9:11

The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to Straight Street and ask for a person named Saul, from Tarsus, at the home of Judas; you will find him [there] praying.”