1 Kings 2:20

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

We love him, because he first loved us.

At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”

In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”

For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.

But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”

I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.