8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.


In Context

5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

6 |Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

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

8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

Matthew 7:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:8For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:8For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:8for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:8for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door shall be opened.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:8For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.