1 John 5:15
Good News Translation
He hears us whenever we ask him; and since we know this is true, we know also that he gives us what we ask from him.

New Revised Standard Version
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him.

Contemporary English Version
And if we know God listens when we pray, we are sure our prayers have already been answered.

New American Bible
And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.

if.

Proverbs 15:29 The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of the just.

Jeremiah 15:12,13 Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass? . . .

we know.

Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, all things, whatsoever you ask when ye pray, believe that you shall receive: and they shall come unto you.

Luke 11:9,10 And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. . . .

Context
Effective Prayer
14And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. 15And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him. 16He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.…
Cross References
1 Kings 3:12
Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.

Proverbs 10:24
As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.

1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.

1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

1 John 5:14
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