Matthew 7:8
for everyone who is asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it will be opened.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you;
9Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask [for] a loaf—a stone will he present to him?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh is a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem;
Psalms 81:10I [am] your God YHWH, || Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge your mouth, and I fill it.
Matthew 15:22and behold, a woman, a Canaanite, having come forth from those borders, called to Him, saying, “Deal kindly with me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.”
John 2:2and also Jesus was called, and His disciples, to the wedding;
Acts 9:11and the LORD [says] to him, “Having risen, go on to the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, [one] by name Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he prays,
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 →