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

⁵ And He said to them, which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶ for a friend of mine has come from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him? ⁷ And he answering from inside may say, Do not trouble me. The door is now shut and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise and give to you. ⁸ I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needs.

⁹ And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you. ¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks it shall be opened. ¹¹ For what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish? ¹² Or if he shall ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?