What Does the Bible Say About Asking And Receiving?

Mark 11:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Luke 11:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 John 5:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

John 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

1 John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

1 John 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

21 Bible Verses about Asking And Receiving

Mark 11:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 John 5:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 11:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Mark 11:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 John 5:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 11:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote