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

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You ask and do not receive, because you ask (A)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

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11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of (A)the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen (B)the purpose of the Lord, how (C)the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

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54 (A)water closed over my head;
    I said, (B)‘I am lost.’

55 (C)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;
56 (D)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
    your ear to my cry for help!’
57 (E)You came near when I called on you;
    you said, (F)‘Do not fear!’

58 “You have (G)taken up my cause, (H)O Lord;
    you have (I)redeemed my life.

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22 I had said in my (A)alarm,[a]
    “I am (B)cut off from (C)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
    when I cried to you for help.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:22 Or in my haste

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought (A)always to pray and not (B)lose heart.

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saying,

(A)“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
(B)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    (C)and you heard my voice.
(D)For you cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
(E)all your waves and your billows
    passed over me.
(F)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
(G)yet I shall again look
    upon your holy temple.’
(H)The waters closed in over me (I)to take my life;
    the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
    at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
    O Lord my God.
When my life was fainting away,
    I remembered the Lord,
(J)and my prayer came to you,
    into your holy temple.
(K)Those who pay regard to vain idols
    (L)forsake their hope of steadfast love.

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18 (A)so I say, “My endurance has perished;
    so has my hope from the Lord.”

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though (A)I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;

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