For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.
Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.
And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.
And I say to you, ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened.
And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?