Matthew 7:7-8

Keep Asking, Searching, Knocking

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7} “Keep asking,^(a)^(A) and it will be given to you.^(B) Keep searching,^(b) and you will find. Keep knocking,^(c) and the door^(d) will be opened to you. ^{Tools
8} For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds,^(C) and to the one who knocks, the door^(e) will be opened.

Footnotes:

a. Matthew 7:7: Or Ask

b. Matthew 7:7: Or Search

c. Matthew 7:7: Or Knock

d. Matthew 7:7: Lit and it

e. Matthew 7:8: Lit knocks, it

Cross references:

A. Matthew 7:7: Luke 11:9-13

B. Matthew 7:7: Matthew 18:22; Mark 11:24; John 14:13-14; John 15:7; John 16:24; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:14

C. Matthew 7:8: Proverbs 8:17; Isaiah 55:6; Jeremiah 29:12-13