For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD."
I had said in my alarm,[2] "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
What father among you, if his son asks for[4] a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;