SinaiBible verses about Prayer
Ask and You Will Receive
The invitation to ask, and the conditions attached to it.
10 verses · World English Bible, with the American Standard Version beneath
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
ASV Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
ASV for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
ASV And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
ASV If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
ASV And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
ASV If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
ASV Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
ASV Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
ASV Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
ASV And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.