Matthew 7:10 - Plain English Version

¹⁰ Or if your son asks you for a fish, will you give him a cheeky snake? No way.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Or give them a snake when they ask for fish?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ or if he were to ask him for a fish, would offer him a snake?

Matthew 7:10 Cross References

Matthew 7:11

You see, you might be bad, but you give good things to your kids. Well, your father in heaven is a lot better than you. He is always good, so he will always give good things to people that ask him.”

Matthew 7:9

It’s like this. If your son asks you for some bread, will you give him a stone? No way.

John 3:14

Think about the story about our grand-fathers that lived a long time ago. They walked through the desert, and they started to complain to God, so he sent snakes to bite them and kill them. Then God told Moses to make a metal snake and put it up on a pole. Then, whenever a snake bit somebody, if that person looked at that metal snake up on the pole, they didn’t die. Well, I am God’s special man from heaven. Just like Moses lifted up that metal snake on a pole, people will lift me up on a cross,