Luke 11:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts [gifts that are to their advantage] to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him! American Standard Version (1901) If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Common English Bible If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him? |
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
If you respond to my warning, , then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.
‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.
I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
After this I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
so that you may be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
‘For if you forgive others their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.
If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you #– #you of little faith?
For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
He said to them, ‘Whenever you pray, say, Father, , your name be honoured as holy. Your kingdom come. ,
Will not God grant justice to his elect who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay helping them?
Jesus answered, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would ask him, and he would give you living water.’
Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptised, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
If by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.