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For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
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A Universal Invitation
Commentators emphasize that Jesus' promise is for 'everyone.' The progression from 'asking' to 'seeking' to 'knocking' illustrates a call to increasingly earnest and persistent prayer. Scholars like the author of the Expositor's Bible Commentary note the original language implies a continuous action, encouraging believers not to give up but to consistently bring their needs to God.
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19th Century
Baptist
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth;
Thus far the Sermon on the Mount lays down the righteousness, sincerity, humility, purity, and love expected of Jesus’ followers; now it assures th…
16th Century
Protestant
For every one that asks receives. Some think that this is a proverbial saying taken from common life, but I am more inclined to a differen…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For everyone that asketh receiveth For God is no respecter of persons; whoever makes application, whether he is a Jew or …
Presbyterian
Prayer is the appointed means for obtaining what we need. Pray; pray often; make a business of prayer, and be serious and earnest in it. Ask, as a …
13th Century
Catholic
Christ fulfilled the Law regarding its precepts and its promises; now He fulfills the Law regarding its judgments. Firstly, therefore, He directs t…
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