37 Bible Verses about Asking

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,

and all things whatever which you ask in prayer believing, you shall receive.

AND Jesus being born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold Magi came from the East to Jerusalem, saying, Where is the king of the Jews born? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.

And after three days they found him sitting in the temple in the midst of the teachers, both hearing and questioning them.

Then the Samaritan woman said to him, How do you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews do no business with the Samaritans.

AND I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the church in Cenchrea, that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.

only [they wished] that we should remember the poor, which I was also forward to do.

I beseech Euodias and I beseech Syntyche to have the same mind in the Lord. Yes, I beseech you also, faithful yoke-fellow, help those women who strove in the gospel with me, with Clement and the rest of my co-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

Pilate therefore addressed them again, wishing to release Jesus;

asking favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, having provided an ambuscade to kill him on the way.

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone?read more.
or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.

And I tell you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. And what father is there of you, who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks also for a fish, will for a fish give him a serpent?read more.
or if he asks also for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.

Be anxious for nothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Then he said to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers few. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest to thrust laborers into his harvest.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him.

And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

and whatever you ask in my name I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

but how he now sees we know not, or who has opened his eyes we know not; ask him, he is of age, he will speak for himself.

therefore his parents said, He is of age, ask him.

And calling one of the servants he inquired what these things meant.

And hearing the multitude passing by he inquired what it meant.

But if they wish to learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in an assembly.

Give not a holy thing to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and turn and rend you.