Luke 11:13 - The Scriptures 2009

¹³ If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts [gifts that are to their advantage] to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!

American Standard Version (1901)

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?

Common English Bible

¹³ If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ 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?

Luke 11:13 Cross References

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done,

Psalm 51:5

See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Proverbs 1:23

“Turn at my reproof. See, I pour out my spirit on you, I make my words known to you.

Isaiah 49:15

“Would a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Though they forget, I never forget you.

Ezekiel 36:27

and put My Spirit within you. And I shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do them.

Joel 2:28

“And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 5:45

so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Matthew 6:14

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father shall also forgive you.

Matthew 6:30

“But if Elohim so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief?

Matthew 6:32

“For all these the nations seek for. And your heavenly Father knows that you need all these.

Matthew 7:11

“If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!

Luke 11:12

or if he asks for an egg shall give him a scorpion?

Luke 11:2

And He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Luke 18:7

“And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?

John 4:10

יהושע answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Acts 2:38

And Kĕpha said to them, “Repent, and let each one of you be immersed in the Name of יהושע Messiah for the forgiveness of sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Set-apart Spirit.

Romans 5:17

For if by the trespass of the one, death did reign through the one, much more those who receive the overflowing favour and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the One, יהושע Messiah.

Romans 7:18

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.

Romans 8:32

Truly, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all – how shall He not, along with Him, freely give us all else?

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another.