37 Bible Verses about Asking

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully,

And everything that you pray for with faith, you will obtain."

Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem, and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him."

And on the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

I want to introduce to you our sister Phoebe, who is a helper in the church at Cenchreae. Welcome her as a Christian, as God's people should welcome one another, and give her whatever help she may need from you. For she has herself been a protection to many, including myself.

Only, we were to remember the poor, and that I have taken pains to do.

I appeal to Euodia and I appeal to Syntyche to agree together, as Christians. And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, and he called out to them again.

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you. For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens. Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone?read more.
Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you. For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens. Which of you fathers, if his son asks him for a fish will give him a snake instead?read more.
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few. So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it."

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself,

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.

And we have confidence in him, that if we ask him for anything that is in accordance with his will, he will listen to us. And if we know that he listens to whatever we ask him for, we know that the requests we have made of him are granted.

Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son.

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

and he called one of the servants to him and asked him what it meant.

And hearing a crowd going by he asked what it meant.

If they want to find out about anything, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

"Do not give what is sacred to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces.