Matthew 7:8
"For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7"Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
9"What man of you is there who, when his son asks a loaf, will give him a stone?
Cross References
Matthew 15:22Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."
John 2:2Jesus also was invited to the wedding, and his disciples.
Acts 9:11And the Lord said to him. "Arise, go into the street named ‘Straight,’ and make inquiries in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus, one Saul.
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 →