Matthew 7:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

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 7:11

If then you know how to give good gifts to your children, even though you are sinful [human beings], how much more [likely] is it that your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask Him?

John 3:14

And [just] like Moses lifted up the snake [on the pole] in the wilderness [Num. 21:9], so the Son of man must be lifted up [on the cross]

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that somehow, just as the snake tricked Eve by his cunning, your minds might[also] be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.