Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
In Context
8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Cross References
Genesis 26:32The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
Psalms 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
Psalms 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”
Psalms 69:32The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
Psalms 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalms 119:12Blessed are you, LORD. Teach me your statutes.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:2-7
The Sermon on the Mount. 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly… Read the whole commentary →