"And whatever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets, in order that men may praise them. In solemn truth I tell you they already have their reward in full.

"Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

"Why do you ask me about what is good?" asked Jesus. "There is but One who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

"and everything that you ask for in your prayers you shall have, if you believe."

and if any place does not receive you, or listen to you, as you go out of it shake off the dust under your feet, as a warning to them."

So she came out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she replied.

Presently there came up to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and said, "Teacher, we wish you would do for us whatever we ask you."

That is why I am telling you that whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it shall be yours.

For the Son of man is going his way, as the Scripture says, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for that man if he had never been born."

So he rose and stood. Then Jesus said to them. "I ask you whether it is lawful on the Sabbath Day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to destroy it?"

"So I say to you. "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.

"The Son of man indeed goes on his way, as it has been determined; but woe to that man by who he is betrayed."

"And if I ask you, you will not answer.

But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.

but even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

"And whatever' you ask in my name I will do; that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

"If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.

"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

And in that day you will ask me no questions. "Most solemnly I tell you that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

"Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God, through mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, as you yourselves know;

"I ask therefore why you sent for me."

"Now do you and the Sanhedrin ask the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you would judge his case more exactly; and we are ready to kill him, before he comes near the place."

I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you??hough until now I have been hindered??o as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

Then I ask, Did God cast off his people? No indeed. For I also am an Israelite, a son of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think,

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light.

On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you;

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you.

and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.