7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
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And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)Our Saviour, in the foregoing chapter, had spoken of prayer as a commanded duty, by which God is honoured, and which, if done aright, shall be rewarded; here he speaks of it as the appointed means of obtaining what we need, especially grace to obey the precepts he had given, some of which are so displeasing to flesh and blood. I. Here is a precept in three words to the same purport, Ask, Seek, Kno…
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