Mat 7:7-11 | NASB2020 | STEP | “ Ask , and it will be given to you; seek , and you will find ; knock , and it will be opened to you.

b Matt 7:7-11: Luke 11:9-13

c Matt 18:19; 21:22; Mark 11:24; John 14:13; 15:7, 16; 16:23f; James 1:5f; 1 John 3:22; 5:14f

j Ps 84:11; Is 63:7; Rom 8:32; James 1:17

Matthew 7:7-11

Prayer and the Golden Rule

7 “ ^{▼▼Or Keep asking
,} ^bAsk, and ^cit will be given to you; ^{▼▼Or keep seeking}seek, and you will find; ^{▼▼Or keep knocking}knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what person is there among you ^{▼▼Lit whom his son will ask}who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, ^{▼▼Lit he will not give him a stone, will he?}will give him a stone? 10 Or ^{▼▼Lit also will ask}if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 So if you, despite being ^{▼▼I.e., as sinful mankind}evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, ^jhow much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!