Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

King James Version

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Holman Bible

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

International Standard Version

Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

A Conservative Version

For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

American Standard Version

for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Amplified

For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened.

An Understandable Version

For every person who asks will [certainly] receive; and the one who looks will [certainly] find; and to the person who knocks, the door will [certainly] be opened.

Anderson New Testament

For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

Bible in Basic English

Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

Common New Testament

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for every one that asks, does receive: he that seeks, does find: and he that knocks at the door, is admitted.

Darby Translation

For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Godbey New Testament

For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened.

Goodspeed New Testament

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

John Wesley New Testament

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Julia Smith Translation

For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened.

King James 2000

For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Modern King James verseion

For each one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For whosoever asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Moffatt New Testament

for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

Montgomery New Testament

"For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened.

NET Bible

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

New Heart English Bible

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Noyes New Testament

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door will be opened.

Sawyer New Testament

For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

The Emphasized Bible

For, whosoever asketh, receiveth, and, he that seeketh, findeth, - and, to him that knocketh, shall it be opened.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For he that asks receives, he that searches finds, and to him that knocks the door shall be opened.

Webster

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door shall be opened.

Weymouth New Testament

For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him.

Williams New Testament

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.

World English Bible

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Worrell New Testament

for every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

Worsley New Testament

for every one, that asketh, receiveth; and he, that seeketh, findeth; and to him, that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Youngs Literal Translation

for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

αἰτέω 
Aiteo 
Usage: 43

λαμβάνω 
lambano 
receive, take, have, catch, not tr,
Usage: 178

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

ζητέω 
Zeteo 
Usage: 79

εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find,
Usage: 130

κρούω 
Krouo 
Usage: 2

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Matthew 7:8

References

American

Easton

Images Matthew 7:8

Prayers for Matthew 7:8

Context Readings

The Sermon On The Mount: Ask, Seek, Knock

7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?


Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

Psalm 81:10

I, the Lord, am your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Psalm 81:16

But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Matthew 15:22-28

And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed.”

Luke 23:42-43

And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!”

John 2:2

and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

John 3:8-10

The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Acts 9:11

And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,

2 Chronicles 33:1-2

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

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