Matthew 7:11

James Moffatt - New Testament

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

Cross References

James 1:17

all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

Romans 8:32

The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

John 3:16

For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

1 John 4:10

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 3:1

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Romans 3:19

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

Galatians 3:22

but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

Romans 3:9

Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin —

Matthew 7:10

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

Matthew 23:9

you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father;