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Matthew 7:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. "

Matthew 7:8

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6 “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

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.

9 Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

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Matthew 7:1

"“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged."

Matthew 7:2

"For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you."

Matthew 7:3

"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?"

Matthew 7:4

"Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?"

Matthew 7:5

"You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye."

Matthew 7:6

"“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."

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