²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. ^(A)Ask, and you will receive, ^(B)that your joy may be full.

² You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^(A)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Ask, and It Will Be Given

^7 (A)“Ask, ^(B)and it will be given to you; ^(C)seek, and you will find; ^(D)knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, ^(A)that my joy may be in you, and that ^(B)your joy may be full.

^3 (A)that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed ^(B)our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. ⁴ And we are writing these things so ^(C)that our^[a] joy may be complete.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, ^(A)who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good ^(B)hope through grace, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts and ^(C)establish them in every good work and word.

^23 (A)In that day you will ^(B)ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(C)whatever you ask of the Father in my name, ^(D)he will give it to you.

Final Greetings

^12 (A)Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. ^(B)Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, ^(C)so that our joy may be complete.

¹⁶ I ^(A)do not cease to give thanks for you, ^(B)remembering you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that ^(C)the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, ^(D)may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,