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for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
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And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
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I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
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And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
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If 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?
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Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him?
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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the demon was gone out,
the one who had been dumb spoke; and the people marvelled.
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But some of them said, He casts out devils through Beelzebub the prince of the demons.
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And others, tempting
him, sought of him a sign from heaven.