37 Bible Verses about Asking
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
but reverence the Lord God in your hearts, and be always ready to answer every one that asks of you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem, saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and have come to do him homage.
And it came to pass, after three days, that they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Then the woman of Samaria said to him: How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? (For the Jews have no social intercourse with the Samaritans.)
I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church that is in Cenchrea, that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has aided many, and myself also.
and knowing the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision, requesting only that we would remember the poor, which same thing I have been diligent in doing.
I beseech Euodia, and I beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. Now I beseech you also, true yoke-fellow, to assist those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
and, asking a favor against him, besought him that he would send and have him brought to Jerusalem, laying a plot to kill him on the road.
Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?read more.
And if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If then you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. If a son ask bread of any one of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?read more.
Or if he ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? If, then, you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Be anxious about nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God:
Then he said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the acknowledgment of him,
For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Now, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
but how he now sees we know not; or who opened his eyes we know not. He is of age; ask him; he will speak for himself.
But if they wish to learn any thing,, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in an assembly.
Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.
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Alms » Asking
Then his neighbors, and those who had before seen him, that he was blind, said: Is not this he that sat and begged?
And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried along, whom they laid daily at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, that he might ask charity of those who were going into the temple.
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Asking For Discernment
James 1:5Now, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
Asking for forgiveness
1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Asking For Help
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Asking For Money
Matthew 5:42Give to him that asks of you; and from him that would borrow of you, turn not away.
Asking In Jesus Name
John 14:13-14and whatever you ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Asking Particular Questions
Matthew 2:4And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.
Asking Permission
Matthew 8:30-31Now there was, at a distance from them, a herd of many swine, feeding.
Not Asking Others
Mark 9:32But they did not understand this saying, and they were afraid to question him.
Prayer, As Asking God
Philippians 4:6Be anxious about nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God: