^{7 Ref} Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

^{8 Ref} Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

^{9 Ref} Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?

^{7 Ref} `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

^{8 Ref} for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

^{9 Ref} `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?

^{7 Ref} "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

^{8 Ref} For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

^{9 Ref} Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?