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

⁵ Jesus also said to them: "Suppose that one of you who has a friend were to go to him in the middle of the night and say 'Friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶ For a friend of mine has arrived at my house after a journey, and I have nothing to offer him;' ⁷ And suppose that the other should answer from inside 'Do not trouble me; the door is already fastened, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything'; ⁸ I tell you that, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is a friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him what he wants.

⁹ And so I say to you--Ask, and your prayer shall be granted: search, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you. ¹⁰ For he that asks receives, he that searches finds, and to him that knocks the door shall be opened. ¹¹ What father among you, if his son asks him for a fish, will give him a snake instead, ¹² Or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him!"