Matthew 7:10
Good News Translation
Or would you give him a snake when he asks for a fish?

New Revised Standard Version
Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake?

Contemporary English Version
Would you give your child a snake if the child asked for a fish?

New American Bible
or a snake when he asks for a fish?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?

Context
Ask, Seek, Knock
9Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone? 10Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent? 11If 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?…
Cross References
Matthew 7:9
Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?

Matthew 7:11
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?

John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Matthew 7:9
Top of Page
Top of Page