Luke 11:5–13

⁵And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves,

⁶Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me and I have not what to set before him.

⁷And he from within should answer and say: Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give thee.

⁸Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

⁹And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

¹⁰For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened:

¹¹And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

¹²Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?

¹³If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?