For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
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.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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.
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?
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.
And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.
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.