Luke 11:5–13

⁵Then He said to them, “Which of you has a friend and will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

⁶for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

⁷and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children ¹and I are in bed; I cannot rise up and give you anything.’

⁸“I tell you, even though he will not arise and give him anything because he is his friend, yet ^abecause of his ¹persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

⁹“So I say to you, ^1aask, and it will be given to you; ²seek, and you will find; ³knock, and it will be opened to you.

¹⁰“For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

¹¹“But what father among you, if his son asks for a ¹fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

¹²“Or, if his son asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

¹³“^aIf you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your ¹heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”