Matthew 7:8-9

7:8 For everyone who asks ¹  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 7:9 Is ²  there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

[7:8]  ¹ sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the encouragement that God does respond.

[7:9]  ² tn Grk “Or is there.”