or a snake when he asks for a fish?
If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. The Golden Rule.
Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread,
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.