1 John 3:22

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we are laying his commands to heart, and are doing what is pleasing in his sight.

Cross References

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and there was a voice from the cloud that said-- "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight; him you must hear."

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask for in your prayers will, if you have faith, be granted you."

Mark 11:24

And therefore I say to you 'Have faith that whatever you ask for in prayer is already granted you, and you will find that it will be.'

John 14:13

Whatever you ask, in my Name, I will do, that the Father may be honored in the Son.

John 15:10

If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.

John 15:7

If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours.

John 6:29

"The work that God would have you do," answered Jesus, "is to believe in him whom God sent as his Messenger."

John 8:29

Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

John 9:31

We know that God never listens to bad men, but, when a man is god-fearing and does God's will, God listens to him.

Acts 17:30

True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,

Acts 20:21

I earnestly pointed both Jews and Greeks to the repentance that leads to God, and to faith in Jesus, our Lord.

Philippians 4:18

My wants are fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts which you sent me--the sweet fragrance of a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God;

Hebrews 13:21

may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.

James 1:5

If one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask wisdom from the God who gives freely to every one without reproaches, and it will be given to him.

James 4:3

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

James 5:16

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good man's fervent prayer.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we have learned to know him--by our laying his commands to heart.

1 John 5:14

And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.