For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
In my alarm I had said, “I am cut off from Your sight.” But You heard the sound of my pleading when I cried to You for help.
Then I thought: My future is lost, as well as my hope from the Lord.
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He rejects my prayer.
Give to the one who asks you, and don’t turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?
“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged:
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is very compassionate and merciful.