¹⁰ For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give ^(A)good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

¹³ Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may ^(A)interpret. ¹⁴ For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

²⁴ Therefore I say to you, ^(A)whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

⁷ Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but ^(A)if I depart, I will send Him to you.

The History of Creation^(A)

1 In the ^(B)beginning ^(C)God created the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was ^(D)without form, and void; and darkness ^[a]was on the face of the deep. ^(E)And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

^3 (F)Then God said, ^(G)“Let there be ^(H)light”; and there was light.

⁶ So he answered and said to me:

²⁸ And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

⁹ that ^(A)if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

The Holy Spirit Promised

^4 (A)And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have ^(B)heard from Me;