1 John 5:15
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15 And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours.
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Matthew 7:7-11
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The Answer to Prayers. 7 (A)“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.(B) 8 For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.(C) 9 Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread,[a] 10 or a snake when he asks for a fish? 11 If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.(D)
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- 7:9–10 There is a resemblance between a stone and a round loaf of bread and between a serpent and the scaleless fish called barbut.
Matthew 21:22
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22 (A)Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.”
The Authority of Jesus Questioned.[a]
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- 21:23–27 Cf. Mk 11:27–33. This is the first of five controversies between Jesus and the religious authorities of Judaism in Mt 21:23–22:46, presented in the form of questions and answers.
John 14:13-14
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13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.(A) 14 If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.
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