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 say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
• John 16:23–24And 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.
• Matt 21:22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
• John 15:16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• John 15:7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
• John 14:13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• 1 Jn 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Matt 7:7–11Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
• Jas 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
• Ps 118:5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
• Jer 29:12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
• Heb 11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
• Jas 5:15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
• Jer 33:3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
• Ps 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
• 2 Cor 12:8–9For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
• Heb 4:16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
• Ps 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
• Ps 34:4I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
• John 4:10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
• Ps 105:3–4Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
• Matt 6:29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
• Ps 27:8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
• 2 Cor 6:2(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
• Isa 55:6–7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Mark 13:37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
• Luke 13:24–25Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
• Ps 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Dan 9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
• Matt 21:31Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
• Acts 10:4–6And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
• Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
• Amos 5:4–6For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
• John 1:45–49Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
• Song 3:1–4By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Rev 2:24But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
• Song 5:6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

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