1 John 3:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Mark 11:24 : 24 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
  • Matt 21:22 : 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
  • John 9:31 : 31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
  • John 15:7 : 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective.
  • John 16:23-24 : 23 "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
  • John 14:13 : 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • John 8:29 : 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 "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. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he? 13 If you 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?"
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 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.
  • Matt 7:24-25 : 24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. 25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked, But he hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 29:12-13 : 12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ps 34:4 : 4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.
  • Ps 34:15-17 : 15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. 16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened. 19 But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
  • Ps 145:18-19 : 18 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, To all who call on him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 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;
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

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