Matthew 21:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἂν αἰτήσητε ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ, πιστεύοντες, λήψεσθε.

Transliteration

And panta, hosa an aitēsēte in the proseuchē, pisteuontes, you will lēpsesthe.

Grammar Details

*panta*: accusative neuter plural - all things
*hosa*: accusative neuter plural, relative pronoun - as many as/whatever
*an*: conditional particle - ever/possibly
*aitēsēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you may ask
*proseuchē*: dative feminine singular - prayer
*pisteuontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - believing
*lēpsesthe*: future middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you will receive

Word Meanings

*panta*: all things/everything
*hosa*: as many as/whatever/that which
*aitēsēte*: ask/request/demand
*proseuchē*: prayer/petition
*pisteuontes*: believing/having faith/trusting
*lēpsesthe*: receive/take/obtain

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Referenced Verses

Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
John 15:7 : 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever {G1437} ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 16:24 : 24 Hitherto {G737} have ye asked {G3756} nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatsoever {G1437} we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:14-15 : 14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: 15 and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The {G1754} supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
Matt 18:19 : 19 Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 11:24 : 24 Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever {G302} ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Luke 11:8-9 : 8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needeth. 9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
John 14:13 : 13 And {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Matt 7:11 : 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

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