1 John 3:22

We receive what we ask because we keep his commandments and please him. Obedient fellowship with God shapes effective prayer.

Cross-references · 34

• John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
• John 9:31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
• 1 Jn 5:14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
• Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
• Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
• John 16:23–24“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
• Ps 34:4I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
• Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Prov 15:29Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
• John 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• Ps 145:18–19Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
• Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
• Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
• Jas 5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
• 1 Jn 3:23–24This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• Ps 34:15–17Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
• Matt 7:24–25“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Luke 11:9–13“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• John 6:29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
• Ps 66:18–19If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
• John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
• Prov 28:9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
• Phil 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
• Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Ps 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
• Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

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