Matthew 7:11

Lighthouse Bible 2006

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again strike any more every thing living, as I have done.

2 Samuel 7:19

And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

Job 15:16

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 85:12

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all those who call upon you.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.

Isaiah 63:7

I will mention the loving kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 33:14

Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we return the sacrifices of our lips.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he does not retain his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy.

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?

Matthew 23:9

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:10

Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before shown concerning both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Galatians 3:22

But the scripture has included all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

1 John 3:1

Behold, what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to satisfy justice for our sins.