Luke 11:5-13 - Ask, Seek, Knock

⁵ Then he said to them, suppose any of you should go to his friend at midnight; and say to him, friend, lend me three loaves: ⁶ for a friend of mine, a traveller, is come to my house, and I have nothing to entertain him with. ⁷ and he within should give this answer, don't trouble me now: the door is made fast, and my family are all in bed: I can't get up to supply you. ⁸ I tell you, tho' he will not rise, to supply him, out of friendship: yet out of regard to his importunity, he will rise, and lend him whatever he has occasion for.

⁹ I tell you likewise, ask, and it shall be given: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and the door shall be opened. ¹⁰ for every one that asketh, receives: he that seeketh, finds: and he that knocks has admittance. ¹¹ what father among you would give his son a stone, when he asketh for bread? or if for a fish, instead of a fish would he give him a serpent? ¹² or instead of an egg will he offer him a scorpion? ¹³ if ye then, wicked as ye are, know how to give what is proper to your children: how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him?