◄ Luke 11:11 ►
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Good News Translation
Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish?

New Revised Standard Version
Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish?

Contemporary English Version
Which one of you fathers would give your hungry child a snake if the child asked for a fish?

New American Bible
What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

a son.

Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?

Context
Ask, Seek, Knock
…10For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened: 11And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?…
Cross References
Matthew 7:10
Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?

Luke 11:10
For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened:

Luke 11:12
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?

Luke 11:10
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