Matthew 7:11

If, therefore, you being evil, have known to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who [is] in the heavens give good things to those asking Him?

Literal Standard Version

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

10And if he may ask [for] a fish—a serpent will he present to him?

12All things, therefore, whatever you may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And YHWH sees that the wickedness of man [is] abundant in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [is] only evil every day;

Exodus 34:6and YHWH passes over before his face, and calls: “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

Job 15:16Also—surely abominable and filthy || Is man drinking perverseness as water.

Psalms 85:12YHWH also gives that which is good, || And our land gives its increase.

Psalms 86:15And You, O Lord, [are] God, merciful and gracious, || Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

Isaiah 49:15“Does a woman forget her suckling, || The loved one—the son of her womb? Indeed, these forget—but I do not forget you.

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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