for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, for the patch breaks away from it, and the tear is made worse:

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

No one stitches a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, otherwise the patch breaks away, the new from the old, and the tear is made worse:

each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.