So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

“For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Then Jesus replied to her, “Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want.” And from that moment her daughter was cured.

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” He said to him. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Then she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”

“John the Baptist’s head!” she said.

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Him and said, “Teacher, we want You to do something for us if we ask You.”

and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

“But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’

“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me.’

and said, “Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!”

For who is greater, the one at the table or the one serving? Isn’t it the one at the table? But I am among you as the One who serves.

He went out and made His way as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed Him.

And if I ask you, you will not answer.

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful.

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow Me.”

The eunuch replied to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about—himself or another person?”

That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me?”

Those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one except Jews.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us:

I have made you
a light for the Gentiles
to bring salvation
to the ends of the earth.”

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.

But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did:

Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:

I will make you jealous
of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation
that lacks understanding.

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.

For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:

that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,

As for Titus, he is my partner and coworker serving you; as for our brothers, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ like a garment.

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, as does Mark, Barnabas’s cousin (concerning whom you have received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),

Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.

Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing—do so even more.

Now we ask you, brothers, to give recognition to those who labor among you and lead you in the Lord and admonish you,

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: We ask you, brothers,

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,

Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.