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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 to 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 needeth.
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And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.
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For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door 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 shall 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 to your children: how much more will [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them 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 dumb spoke; and the people wondered.
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But some of them said, He casteth out demons through Beelzebub, the chief of the demons.
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And others tempting [him], sought from him a sign from heaven.