Matthew 7:7-12 - The Sermon On The Mount: Ask, Seek, Knock

⁷ "Ask [God for something] and it will be given to you; look [to God for something] and you will find it; knock [on the door of opportunity] and it will be opened up to you. ⁸ 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. ⁹ Or, what person among you would give his son a stone if he asked you for a piece of bread? ¹⁰ Or who would give him a snake if he asked you for a fish? ¹¹ If then you know how to give good gifts to your children, even though you are sinful [human beings], how much more [likely] is it that your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask Him? ¹² Therefore, everything that you would like people to do to you, do [these things] to them also. For this is [what is required by] the law of Moses and the prophets.