我又告訴你們，你們祈求，就給你們；尋找，就尋見；叩門，就給你們開門。 ……你們中間作父親的，誰有兒子求餅，反給他石頭呢？求魚，反拿蛇當魚給他呢？ ……你們雖然不好，尚且知道拿好東西給兒女；何況天父，豈不更將聖靈給求他的人嗎？」
路加福音 11:9, 11, 13
So I tell you this. Continue to ask God for what you need. Then God will give it to you. Continue to look for what you need. Then you will find it. Continue to knock at the door and God will open it for you. ……Some of you are fathers. If your son asks you for a fish, you would not give him a snake instead. ……You are bad. But even you know how to give good things to your children. Your Father in heaven knows much better than you do how to give good things to his children. So he will give the Holy Spirit to everyone who asks him.’ Luke 11:9, 11, 13