Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
"I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.
"Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."
But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD."
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.
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?
Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says the LORD.
Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.
Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
Thus says the LORD, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."
This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
"In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."
It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What do you want?"
He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean?'
that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?'
The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from the mouth of the LORD.
It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"
The angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?"
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name:
They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."
But do not ask me what I will do, for I will not reveal it to you until the things that I do are completed."
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
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?"
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;
He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:
They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
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