Matthew 7:11

Legacy Standard Bible

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 what is good to those who ask Him!

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And Yahweh smelled the soothing aroma; and Yahweh said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

2 Samuel 7:19

And yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord Yahweh, for You have spoken also of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future. And this is the law of man, O Lord Yahweh.

Job 15:16

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, Man, who drinks unrighteousness like water!

Psalm 84:11

For Yahweh God is a sun and shield; Yahweh gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk blamelessly.

Psalm 85:12

Indeed, Yahweh will give what is good, And our land will yield its produce.

Psalm 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a God compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are good, and by nature forgiving, And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her infant And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

Isaiah 63:7

¶I shall bring to remembrance the lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, According to all the ways that Yahweh has dealt bountifully with us, And the abundant goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has dealt bountifully to them according to His compassion And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

Jeremiah 17:9

¶“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can know it?

Jeremiah 33:14

‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares Yahweh, ‘when I will establish the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to Yahweh. Say to Him, “Forgive all iniquity And take what is good, That we may pay in full the fruit of our lips.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who forgives iniquity And passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He does not hold fast to His anger forever Because He delights in lovingkindness.

Malachi 1:6

“ ‘A son honors his father, and a slave his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is the fear of Me?’ says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Matthew 23:9

And do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:10

Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

John 3:16

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

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are in the Law, so that every mouth may be shut and all the world may become accountable to God;

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

Romans 8:32

He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

James 1:17

Every good thing given 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 great a love the Father has given to us, that we would be called children of God; and we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.