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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, and I cannot rise and give to thee'?
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I say unto you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
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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 asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh 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 for 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 them that ask Him?"
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And He was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass when the devil had gone out, the dumb one spoke; and the people wondered.
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But some of them said, "He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils."
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And others, testing Him, sought from Him a sign from Heaven.
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But He, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.