World English Bible
Matthew 7:9
“Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?”
Verse in context — Matthew 7
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Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
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For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
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Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
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Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
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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 those who ask him!
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