For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
And I said, “My strength and my hope Have 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 out to You.
Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,
Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?