Matthew 7:11

If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

In Context

10Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?

12All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Exodus 34:6And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,

Job 15:16How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

Psalms 85:12Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.

Psalms 86:15And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.

Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:8-12

The Sermon on the Mount. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to… Read the whole commentary →

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