Luke 11:9

New English Translation

“So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Cross References

Psalm 118:5

In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.

Psalm 27:4

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

Psalm 27:8

My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O Lord.

Psalm 34:10

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Psalm 34:4

I sought the Lord’s help and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 50:15

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened for my beloved, but my lover had already turned and gone away. I fell into despair when he departed. I looked for him but did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.

Jeremiah 29:12

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’

Daniel 9:3

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.”

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

Matthew 6:29

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

Mark 11:24

For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 13:37

What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

John 14:13

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

John 15:7

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

John 4:10

Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Romans 2:7

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says, “I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!

Hebrews 11:6

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 4:16

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

James 1:5

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

James 5:15

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up – and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

Revelation 2:24

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching (who have not learned the so-called “deep secrets of Satan”), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.