Matthew 7:7-11

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Prayer and the Golden Rule

⁷“^[a]^(A)Ask, and ^(B)it will be given to you; ^[b]seek, and you will find; ^[c]knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. ⁹Or what person is there among you ^[d]who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, ^[e]will give him a stone? ¹⁰Or ^[f]if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? ¹¹So if you, despite being ^[g]evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, ^(C)how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

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Matthew 7:7 Or Keep asking
Matthew 7:7 Or keep seeking
Matthew 7:7 Or keep knocking
Matthew 7:9 Lit whom his son will ask
Matthew 7:9 Lit he will not give him a stone, will he?
Matthew 7:10 Lit also will ask
Matthew 7:11 I.e., as sinful mankind

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

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A Thorn in the Flesh

⁷Because of the extraordinary greatness of the ^(A)revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a ^(B)thorn in the flesh, a ^(C)messenger of Satan to ^[a]torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! ⁸Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord ^(D)three times that it might leave me. ⁹And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for ^(E)power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather ^(F)boast ^[b]about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰Therefore ^(G)I delight in weaknesses, in ^[c]insults, in ^(H)distresses, in ^(I)persecutions, in ^(J)difficulties, ^(K)in behalf of Christ; for ^(L)when I am weak, then I am strong.