John 15:7
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7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.(A)
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John 15:16
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16 It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.(A)
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John 16:23-24
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23 On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.(A) 24 Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
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Matthew 7:7-11
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The Answer to Prayers. 7 (A)“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.(B) 8 For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.(C) 9 Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread,[a] 10 or a snake when he asks for a fish? 11 If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.(D)
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- 7:9–10 There is a resemblance between a stone and a round loaf of bread and between a serpent and the scaleless fish called barbut.
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