Luke 11:13

Ask, Seek, Knock

¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³  So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!" ¹⁴ Once he was driving out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone the dumb man spoke. And the people were amazed.

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Matthew 7:11

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

John 4:10

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Matthew 5:16

Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will forgive you too.

Matthew 6:30

But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith?

Matthew 6:32

For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this.

Luke 11:2

He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father, your name be revered! Your kingdom come!

Luke 15:30-32

But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!'

John 3:5-6

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

John 7:37-39

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

Romans 5:9-10

So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!

Romans 5:17

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

Romans 8:32

Will not he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, with that gift give us everything?

2 Corinthians 3:9-11

If there was splendor in the religion of condemnation, the religion of uprightness must far surpass it in splendor.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

Hebrews 12:9-10

When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?