Matthew 7:8
Good News Translation
For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to those who knock.

New Revised Standard Version
For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone who asks will receive. Everyone who searches will find. And the door will be opened for everyone who knocks.

New American Bible
For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Matthew 15:22-28 And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:1,2,19 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. . . .

Psalm 81:10,16 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. . . .

John 2:2 And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

John 3:8-10 The Spirit breatheth where he will and thou hearest his voice: but thou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit. . . .

Luke 23:42,43 And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom. . . .

Acts 9:11 And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is called Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold he prayeth.

Context
Ask, Seek, Knock
7Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. 8For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. 9Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?…
Cross References
Psalm 37:4
Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

Matthew 7:9
Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?

Luke 11:10
For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened:

Matthew 7:7
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