Matthew 7:8-11

8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for 1bread, will give him 2a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
11 If you then, 3who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will 4your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Cross References 4

  • 1. Matthew 4:3
  • 2. Matthew 4:3
  • 3. Matthew 12:34; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21
  • 4. [See ver. 7 above]
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