Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
9Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Psalms 81:10I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Matthew 15:22Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
John 2:2Yeshua also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.
Acts 9:11The Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man 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 →