Luke 11:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹¹ And what father among you, whose son asks [him] {Some ancient manuscripts add} “for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone [instead]? Or, [if he asks]” for a fish, will give him a snake [instead]?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ What father among you, if his son asks for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone; or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

Common English Bible

¹¹ “Which father among you would give a snake to your child if the child asked for a fish?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ So then, who among you, if he asks his father for bread, he would give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he would give him a serpent, instead of a fish?

Luke 11:11 Cross References

Matthew 7:9

Or, what person among you would give his son a stone if he asked you for a piece of bread?

Matthew 7:10

Or who would give him a snake if he asked you for a fish?

Luke 11:10

For every person who asks will [certainly] receive; and the one who looks will [certainly] find; and to the person who knocks, the door will [certainly] be opened up.

Luke 11:12

Or, if he asks [him] for an egg, will give him a scorpion [instead]? [Note: While at rest a scorpion rolls up in a ball that resembles an egg].