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

² You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and ^[a]war. ^[b]Yet you do not have because you do not ask. ^3 (A)You ask and do not receive, ^(B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking^(A)

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

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

³ that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is ^(A)with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. ⁴ And these things we write to you ^(B)that ^[a]your joy may be full.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, ^(A)who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and ^(B)good hope by grace, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts ^(C)and ^[a]establish you in every good word and work.

²³ “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. ^(A)Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.

John’s Farewell Greeting

^12 (A)Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, ^(B)that our joy may be full.

^16 (A)do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: ¹⁷ that ^(B)the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, ^(C)may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,