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, 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.
• Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
• John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• 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.
• 1 Jn 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
• John 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• 1 Jn 3:22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Matt 7:7–11“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for 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.
• Ps 118:5Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
• Jer 29:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Heb 11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
• Jas 5:15and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
• Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
• Ps 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
• 2 Cor 12:8–9Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
• Heb 4:16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
• Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
• Ps 34:4I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
• John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me 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 heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
• Matt 6:29yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
• Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
• 2 Cor 6:2for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Mark 13:37What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”
• Luke 13:24–25“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
• Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Dan 9:3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
• Acts 10:4–6He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
• Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
• Amos 5:4–6For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
• John 1:45–49Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• Song 3:1–4By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Rev 2:24But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
• Song 5:6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

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