For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?