Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:11 - English Majority Text Version If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him! American Standard Version (1901) If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things 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 your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things 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 who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him? |
Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
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.
Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
But the Scripture has confined all under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! On account of this the world does not know you, because it did not know Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.