Matthew 7:11 - Tree of Life Version

¹¹ If you then, being 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!

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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?

Common English Bible

¹¹ If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?

Matthew 7:11 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

Then Adonai saw that the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

When Adonai smelled the soothing aroma, Adonai said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, even though the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from youth. Nor will I ever again smite all living creatures, as I have done.

2 Samuel 7:19

Yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, my Lord Adonai—for You have spoken also of Your servant’s house for the distant future. This is a revelation for humanity, my Lord Adonai.

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks evil like water!

Psalm 84:11

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather stand at the threshold of the House of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 85:12

Truth will spring up from the earth, and justice will look down from heaven.

Psalm 86:15

But You, my Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, full of love and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For You, my Lord, are good, and ready to forgive and full of mercy to all who call upon You.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.

Isaiah 63:7

I will remember the lovingkindnesses of Adonai, the praises of Adonai, according to all that Adonai has granted us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He has granted them according to His compassion, and according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?

Jeremiah 33:14

“Behold, days are coming” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “when I will fulfill the good word I spoke concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

Hosea 14:2

Return O Israel, to Adonai your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You pardoning iniquity, overlooking transgression, for the remnant of His heritage? He will not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. So if I am Father, where is My honor? If I am Master, where is My reverence?”—says Adonai-Tzva’ot—“you, kohanim who despise My Name!” But you say, “How did we despise Your Name?”

Matthew 23:9

And call no man on earth your father; for One is your Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:10

Or when he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those within the Torah, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become accountable to God.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better than they? No, not at all. For we have already made the case that all—both Jewish and Greek people—are under sin.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture has locked up the whole world under sin, so that the promise based on trust in Messiah Yeshua might be given to those who trust.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

1 John 3:1

See how glorious a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God’s children—and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

1 John 4:10

This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.