Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs,(A) or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Keep Asking, Searching, Knocking

“Keep asking,[a](B) and it will be given to you.(C) Keep searching,[b] and you will find. Keep knocking,[c] and the door[d] will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds,(D) and to the one who knocks, the door[e] will be opened.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:7 Or Ask
  2. Matthew 7:7 Or Search
  3. Matthew 7:7 Or Knock
  4. Matthew 7:7 Lit and it
  5. Matthew 7:8 Lit knocks, it

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Ask, Seek, Knock(A)

“Ask and it will be given to you;(B) seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds;(C) and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

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