Parallel Verses
World English Bible
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
New American Standard Bible
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
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
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.
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.
Themes
Adoption » Should produce » A spirit of prayer
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 7:8
Images Matthew 7:8
Prayers for Matthew 7:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Mount: Ask, Seek, Knock
7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
Psalm 81:10
I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalm 81:16
But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.
Matthew 15:22-28
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely demonized!"
Luke 23:42-43
He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom."
John 2:2
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
John 3:8-10
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
Acts 9:11
The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
2 Chronicles 33:1-2
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.