Matthew 7:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

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?

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times,

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: "I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done.

2 Samuel 7:19

Moreover, this has seemed little in your sight, O Lord God, unless you also will speak about the house of your servant for a long time. For this is the law of Adam, O Lord God.

Job 15:16

How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?

Psalm 84:11

Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.

Psalm 85:12

I will confess to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. And I will glorify your name in eternity.

Psalm 86:5

Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.

Isaiah 63:7

I will remember the compassion of the Lord, the praise of the Lord over all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and over the multitude of his good things for the house of Israel, which he has granted to them according to his leniency, and according to the multitude of his mercies.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

Jeremiah 33:14

Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

Hosea 14:2

Israel, convert to the Lord your God. For you have been ruined by your own iniquity.

Micah 7:18

What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.

Malachi 1:6

The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, "In what way, have we despised your name?"

Matthew 23:9

And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:10

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

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

Romans 3:19

But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.

Romans 3:9

What is next? Should we try to excel ahead of them? By no means! For we have accused all Jews and Greeks to be under sin,

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare even his own Son, but handed him over for the sake of us all, how could he not also, with him, have given us all things?

Galatians 3:22

But Scripture has enclosed everything under sin, so that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

James 1:17

Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.

1 John 4:10

In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.