6 because a friend of mine on a journey has arrived and I have nothing to set before him.’
7 Imagine further that he answers from within the house, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’
8 I assure you, even if he wouldn’t get up and help because of his friendship, he will get up and give his friend whatever he needs because of his friend’s brashness.
9 And I tell you: Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you.
10 Everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. To everyone who knocks, the door is opened.
11 "Which father among you would give a snake to your child if the child asked for a fish?
12 If a child asked for an egg, what father would give the child a scorpion?