Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened.
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In Context
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
9Or what man is there among you, who, if his son were to ask him for bread, would offer him a stone;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Matthew 15:22And behold, a woman of Canaan, going out from those parts, cried out, saying to him: “Take pity on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is badly afflicted by a demon.”
John 2:2Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples.
Acts 9:11And the Lord said to him: “Rise up and go into the street that is called Straight, and seek, in the house of Judas, the one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying.”
Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:8-12
The Sermon on the Mount. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to… Read the whole commentary →