New American Standard Bible 1995

Matthew 7:7-12

7“1 2Ask, and 3it will be given to you; 4seek, and you will find; 5knock, and it will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9Or what man is there among you 6who, when his son asks for a loaf, 7will give him a stone? 10Or 8if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, 9how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

12“In everything, 10therefore, 11treat people the same way you want 12them to treat you, for 13this is the Law and the Prophets.

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Notes

1. Matthew 7:7 Or Keep asking ↩
2. Matthew 7:7 Matt 7:7-11: Luke 11:9-13 ↩
3. Matthew 7:7 Matt 18:19; 21:22; Mark 11:24; John 14:13; 15:7, 16; 16:23f; James 1:5f; 1 John 3:22; 5:14f ↩
4. Matthew 7:7 Or keep seeking ↩
5. Matthew 7:7 Or keep knocking ↩
6. Matthew 7:9 Lit whom his son will ask ↩
7. Matthew 7:9 Lit he will not give him a stone, will he? ↩
8. Matthew 7:10 Lit also will ask ↩
9. Matthew 7:11 Ps 84:11; Is 63:7; Rom 8:32; James 1:17 ↩
10. Matthew 7:12 Luke 6:31 ↩
11. Matthew 7:12 Lit you, too, do so for them ↩
12. Matthew 7:12 Lit people; Gr anthropoi ↩
13. Matthew 7:12 Matt 22:40; Rom 13:8ff; Gal 5:14 ↩

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