Matthew 7:11 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 7:11

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 them that ask him?

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

YLT

if, 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?

DBT

If therefore ye, being wicked, know [how] to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Cross-references

45 verses on the floor

James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Luke 11:13
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Luke 11:11–13
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

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Our Lord Jesus here presses upon us that righteousness towards men which is an essential branch of true religion, and that religion towards God which is an essential branch of universal righteousness. We must make righteousness our rule, and be ruled by it,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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!--Bad as our fallen nature is, the father in us is not extinguished.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

To them that ask him - But on this condition, that ye follow the example of his goodness, by doing to all as ye would they should do to you. For this is the law and the prophets - This is the sum of all, exactly answering Chap. v, 17. The whole is comprised in one word, Imitate the God of love.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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G421427× in canon G15470× in canon G419078× in canon G312381× in canon G504399× in canon G18102× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAT 7:11JAS 1:17 JHN 3:27
MAT 7:11JAS 1:17 PSA 84:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 7:11PSA 84:11 PSA 34:9-10
MAT 7:11PSA 84:11 PRO 2:7
MAT 7:11JAS 1:17 HEB 13:8
MAT 7:11PSA 84:11 MAT 6:33
MAT 7:11ROM 8:32 JHN 3:16
MAT 7:11PSA 84:11 PHP 4:19

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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