If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
Parallel translations
- WEB All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
- KJV And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
- NKJV And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
- NASB And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive it all.”
- NLT You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it.”
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Quick answer
Whatever we ask in believing prayer we will receive. This is a promise of God's faithful response to faith-filled, God-aligned petition.
Overview
This verse caps Jesus' teaching on prayer with a sweeping promise that should be read alongside the rest of Scripture's instruction on prayer. Believing prayer is not a blank check but petition shaped by trust in God and conformity to His will and Word (cf. 1 John 5:14-15). The emphasis falls on confident dependence on a good Father who hears His children.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Matt 7:7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to 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.
- Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- 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.
- John 14:13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- Luke 11:8–10I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
- Matt 18:19Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.
- Jas 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
- John 16:24Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
- John 15:7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Matt 7:11So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
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Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King — son of David, son of Abraham — the new Moses and true Israel in whom every prophecy reaches 'that it might be fulfilled.'
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