11 translations · Greek
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 those who ask him!
Matthew 7:11 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- 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!
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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?
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- If, therefore, you being evil, have known to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who [is] in the heavens give good things to those asking Him?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- So if even you who are evil know to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who [is] in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
- DBY Darby Translation
- If therefore ye, being wicked, know [how] to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- 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!
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- 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?
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἰ | ei | if | G1487 εἰ if |
| οὖν | oun | So | G3767 οὖν therefore/then |
| ὑμεῖς | hymeis | you | G4771 σύ you |
| πονηροὶ | ponēroi | evil | G4190 πονηρός evil/bad |
| ὄντες | ontes | who are | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| οἴδατε | oidate | know how | G1492 εἴδω to perceive: understand |
| δόματα | domata | gifts | G1390 δόμα gift |
| ἀγαθὰ | agatha | good | G18 ἀγαθός good |
| διδόναι | didonai | to give | G1325 δίδωμι to give |
| τοῖς | tois | to | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| τέκνοις | teknois | children | G5043 τέκνον child |
| ὑμῶν | hymōn | your | G4771 σύ you |
| πόσῳ | posō | how much | G4214 πόσος how much/many? |
| μᾶλλον | mallon | more | G3123 μᾶλλον more |
| ὁ | ho | {will} | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Πατὴρ | Patēr | Father | G3962 πατήρ father |
| ὑμῶν | hymōn | your | G4771 σύ you |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τοῖς | tois | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| οὐρανοῖς | ouranois | heaven | G3772 οὐρανός heaven |
| δώσει | dōsei | give | G1325 δίδωμι to give |
| ἀγαθὰ | agatha | good things | G18 ἀγαθός good |
| τοῖς | tois | to those | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| αἰτοῦσιν | aitousin | who ask | G154 αἰτέω to ask |
| αὐτόν | auton | Him | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
Related verses
- Luke 11:11–13
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
- James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
- Romans 8:32
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Psalm 84:11
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
- John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- Psalm 86:15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Ephesians 2:1–5
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. …
- 1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
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 those who ask him!
12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
13 “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
Read all of Matthew 7 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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