And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are 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 who ask him!
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
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