If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Treasury of Scripture being. Genesis 6:5,6 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth... Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake... Job 15:14-16 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous... Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. John 3:5,6 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God... Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me... Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy... know. Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget... Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children... Hebrews 12:9,10 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence... how. Matthew 6:30 Why, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you... Romans 5:9,10,17 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him... 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? 2 Corinthians 3:9-11 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory... heavenly. Luke 11:2 And he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done... Luke 15:30-32 But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf... Matthew 5:16,45 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven... Matthew 6:14,32 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you... give the. Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. Isaiah 44:3,4 For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground: I will pour my spirit on your seed... Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy... Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children... John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink... John 7:37-39 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink...
Context Ask, Seek, Knock
5And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves; 6For a friend of my in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? 7And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you. 8I say to you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs. 9And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. 10For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. 11If 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? 12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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?
Douay-Rheims Bible
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?
Darby Bible Translation
If therefore ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
King James Bible
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?
Young's Literal Translation
If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
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