y aquel, respondiendo desde adentro, le dice: «No me molestes; la puerta ya está cerrada, y mis hijos y yo estamos acostados[a]; no puedo levantarme para darte nada». Os digo que aunque no se levante a darle algo por ser su amigo, no obstante, por su importunidad[b](A) se levantará y le dará cuanto necesite. Y yo os digo: (B)Pedid, y se os dará; buscad, y hallaréis; llamad, y se os abrirá.

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Footnotes

  1. Lucas 11:7 Lit., están conmigo en la cama
  2. Lucas 11:8 O, insistencia

Y el que está adentro le contesta: “No me molestes. Ya está cerrada la puerta y mis hijos y yo estamos acostados. No puedo levantarme a darte nada”. Les digo que, aunque no se levante a darle pan por ser amigo suyo, sí se levantará por su impertinencia y le dará cuanto necesite.

»Así que yo digo: Pidan y se les dará; busquen y encontrarán; llamen y se les abrirá.

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And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[a] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.(A)

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you;(B) seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

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  1. Luke 11:8 Or yet to preserve his good name

and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, (A)though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking(B)

(C)“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; (D)seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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