7`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
8for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
9`Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?
10and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?
11if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who [is] in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
12`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
13`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide [is] the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;