Luke 11:5–13

Keep Asking, Searching, Knocking

⁵He also said to them: “Suppose one of you ^chas a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, ⁶because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’ ^d7Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’ ⁸I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s persistence, ^ehe will get up and give him as much as he needs. ^f

⁹“So ^gI say to you, keep asking, ^hiand it will be given to you. Keep searching, ^jkand you will find. Keep knocking, ^lmand the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. ¹¹What father among you, if his son ⁿasks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? ¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³If you then, who are evil, ^oknow how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father ^pgive ^qthe Holy Spirit ^rto those who ask Him?”