Luke 11:9

Jesus urges his disciples to keep asking, seeking, and knocking, with the promise that God responds. Persistent prayer is met by a giving Father.

Cross-references · 39

• Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
• John 16:23–24In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• Matt 21:22If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
• John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
• John 14:13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• 1 Jn 3:22and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
• Matt 7:7–11Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• Jas 1:5Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
• Ps 118:5In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.
• Jer 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
• Heb 11:6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
• Jas 5:15And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
• Jer 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
• Ps 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
• 2 Cor 12:8–9Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
• Heb 4:16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
• Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
• Ps 34:4I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.
• John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
• Ps 105:3–4Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
• Matt 6:29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
• Ps 27:8My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
• 2 Cor 6:2For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Mark 13:37And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep watch!”
• Luke 13:24–25“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
• Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
• Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
• Dan 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
• Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
• Acts 10:4–6Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
• Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
• Amos 5:4–6For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
• John 1:45–49Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• Song 3:1–4On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
• Rev 2:24But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you.
• Song 5:6I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

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