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katapi HOME Matthew 7:7-11 - Ask, Seek, Knock  Mt.7.7-12 (Galilee)- Lk.11.9-13 | NEB Contents | notes

7 7 'Ask, and you will receive, seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. 7 8 For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
7 9 'Is there a man among you who will offer his son a stone when he asks for bread, 7 10 or a snake when he asks for fish? 7 11 If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give your children what is good for them, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him!


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