36 Bible Verses about Asking

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always for an answer to every one who asks of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear;

And all things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."

And Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the King, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He that is born King of the Jews, For we saw His star in the east, and we came to do Him homage."

The Samaritan woman, therefore, says to Him, "How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the assembly which is in Cenchrea; that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself became a helper of many, and of myself.

And, perceiving the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas right-hands of fellowship, that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision; only they desired that we should remember the poor, which very thing I was also eager to do.

I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntiche, to think the same thing in the Lord. Yea, I request you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, who, indeed, labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and my remaining fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

And again Pilate called to them, wishing to release Jesus.

asking it as a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush, to kill him on the way.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask him for bread, will give him a stone?read more.
Or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If, therefore, ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in Heaven give good things to those asking Him?

And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: for every one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?read more.
or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

Be anxious for nothing; but, in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God:

Then He saith to His disciples, "The harvest, indeed, is abundant, but the laborers few; pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.

I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him;

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

But, if any of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask from God, Who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him;

And this is the confidence which we have toward Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us; and, if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we asked of Him.

And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

but how he now sees, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself."

On this account, his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

And, calling to him one of the young men, he inquired of him, what these things might be.

And, hearing a multitude passing along, he was inquiring what this might be.

And, if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a wife to speak in an assembly.

"Give not that which is holy to the dogs; neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them down with their feet; and, turning, rend you.