Luke 11:10
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New International Version (©2011)
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

New Living Translation (©2007)
For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

International Standard Version (©2012)
because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

NET Bible (©2006)
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“For everyone who asks receives, and whoever seeks finds, and whoever knocks, it is opened to him.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Everyone who asks will receive. The one who searches will find, and for the person who knocks, the door will be opened.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

American King James Version
For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

American Standard Version
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Darby Bible Translation
For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.

English Revised Version
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Webster's Bible Translation
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door shall be opened.

Weymouth New Testament
For every one who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.

World English Bible
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:5-13 Christ encourages fervency and constancy in prayer. We must come for what we need, as a man does to his neighbour or friend, who is kind to him. We must come for bread; for that which is needful. If God does not answer our prayers speedily, yet he will in due time, if we continue to pray. Observe what to pray for; we must ask for the Holy Spirit, not only as necessary in order to our praying well, but as all spiritual blessings are included in that one. For by the influences of the Holy Spirit we are brought to know God and ourselves, to repent, believe in, and love Christ, and so are made comfortable in this world, and meet for happiness in the next. All these blessings our heavenly Father is more ready to bestow on every one that asks for them, than an indulgent parent is to give food to a hungry child. And this is the advantage of the prayer of faith, that it quiets and establishes the heart in God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For every one that asketh receiveth,.... Some indeed ask and receive not, because they ask amiss, James 4:3 who either apply to a wrong person, or ask in a wrong manner, or from wrong principles, or with wrong ends in view: but when a man is right in the object of prayer, and in the matter and manner of prayer, and in the end he proposes to himself, let him be what he will, of whatsoever nation, or ever mean a person, he has the petitions which he asks, either immediately, or, at least, he may be assured he shall have them in God's due time:

and he that seeketh findeth; whoever not only prays, but makes use of means, as attendance on other ordinances, and is diligent in the use of them, sooner or later finds his account herein, and what his soul seeks for:

and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; not only who prays heartily, and seeks diligently, but who is importunate, and will have no denial; continues knocking; though there may be some time a seeming delay, yet the door will not always be shut to him; after much knocking it will be opened; See Gill on Matthew 7:8

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Ask, Seek, Knock
…9And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. 10For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. 11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? …

Matthew 5:42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Matthew 7:8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Luke 11:9 "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Luke 11:11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?