Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Parallel translations
- WEB Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
- BSB Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
- NKJV Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
- NASB Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
- NLT You haven’t done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.
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Quick answer
Until now they have not asked in Jesus' name; He invites them to ask and receive so their joy may be full. Prayer in Christ's name leads to fullness of joy.
Overview
Jesus introduces a new dimension of prayer: asking the Father in His name, something not yet practiced. He urges the disciples to ask and receive, with the goal that their joy be complete. This connects answered prayer to the full joy promised throughout the discourse, all flowing from the believer's relationship with the Father through the Son.
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Cross-references · 15
- Matt 7:7–8Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
- Jas 4:2–3Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
- John 15:11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
- John 16:23And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
- 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
- 1 Jn 1:3–4That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
- Eph 1:16–17Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
- 2 Jn 1:12Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
- Matt 6:9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
- 2 Th 1:2Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Kgs 18:36And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
- Gen 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
- John 3:29He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
- 2 Kgs 19:15And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
- 1 Th 3:11–13Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
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