King James Version (KJV)
Luke 11:12
“‹Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?›”
Verse in context — Luke 11
‹For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.›
‹If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if› [he ask] ‹a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?›
‹Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?›
‹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?›
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
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