^{9 Ref} "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

^{10 Ref} For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

^{11 Ref} "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

^{9 Ref} And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

^{10 Ref} For 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.

^{11 Ref} And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?