22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-22)The apostle, having intimated that there may be, even among us, such a privilege as an assurance or sound persuasion of heart towards God, proceeds here, I. To establish the court of conscience, and to assert the authority of it: For, if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things , 1 John 3:20. Our heart here is our self-reflecting judicial power, that noble excell…
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