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 with wrong motives so you may spend it on your passions.
So I said, “My endurance has perished, and my hope from Adonai.”
Blessed be Adonai, for He has shown me His wonderful love in a besieged city.
Behold, we consider blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the outcome of Adonai—that Adonai is full of compassion and mercy.
Then Yeshua told them a parable to show that they should always pray and not be discouraged,
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it shall be opened.
“So I say to you, ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
What father, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?