Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse X · §9 · John Wesley

Everyone who asks

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For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it shall be opened. Matthew 7:8.

1771 text

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

About this text

The tenth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 7:1-12: judging others, holy things and pearls, asking, seeking and knocking, and the golden rule.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

Reference

Sermon 30 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:1-12.

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