4. and forgive us our sinsfor we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,and do not subject us to the final test.”
5. And he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
6. for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’
7. and he says in reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
8. I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.
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. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.