In my alarm I said, ‘I am cut off from your sight!’ Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
Luke 11:10 - New International Version (Anglicised) For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. American Standard Version (1901) For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Common English Bible Everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. To everyone who knocks, the door is opened. Catholic Public Domain Version For everyone who asks, receives. And whoever seeks, finds. And whoever knocks, it shall be opened to him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. |
In my alarm I said, ‘I am cut off from your sight!’ Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
So I say, ‘My splendour is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.’
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
‘Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
‘So I say to you: ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.