Luke 11:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ οὖν, ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὑπάρχοντες, οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν: πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν;

Transliteration

If oun, you ponēroi hyparchontes, oidate domata agatha didonai to the teknois of you: how much more the Patēr from ouranou dōsei Pneuma Hagion to the ones aitousin him?

Grammar Details

• *oun*: postpositive conjunction - therefore/then
• *ponēroi*: nominative, masculine, plural - evil/wicked
• *hyparchontes*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - being/existing
• *oidate*: perfect indicative, active, 2nd plural - you know
• *domata*: accusative, neuter, plural - gifts
• *agatha*: accusative, neuter, plural - good
• *didonai*: present infinitive, active - to give
• *teknois*: dative, neuter, plural - children
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven
• *dōsei*: future indicative, active, 3rd singular - will give
• *Pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagion*: accusative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *aitousin*: present participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - asking

Word Meanings

• *ponēroi*: evil/wicked/bad
• *hyparchontes*: being/existing/belonging
• *oidate*: know/understand/comprehend
• *domata*: gifts/presents
• *agatha*: good/beneficial/valuable
• *didonai*: to give/to grant/to bestow
• *teknois*: children/offspring/descendants
• *Patēr*: Father/progenitor
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky/celestial realm
• *dōsei*: will give/will grant/will bestow
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *Hagion*: Holy/set apart/sacred
• *aitousin*: asking/requesting

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:11 : 11 If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?
• John 4:10 : 10 In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
• Rom 7:18 : 18 For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?
• Heb 12:9-9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? 10 For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
• 2 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness? 10 For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after. 11 For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.
• Prov 1:23 : 23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
• Isa 44:3-4 : 3 For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring. 4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.
• John 7:37-39 : 37 On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him. 38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water. 39 This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.
• Rom 5:9-9 : 9 Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him. 10 For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
• Rom 5:17 : 17 For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.
• Luke 11:2 : 2 And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come.
• Luke 15:30-32 : 30 But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him. 31 And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours. 32 But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
• John 3:5-6 : 5 Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God. 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
• Isa 49:15 : 15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright? 15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; 16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
• Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
• Matt 6:14 : 14 For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.
• Matt 6:30 : 30 But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?
• Matt 6:32 : 32 Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
• Gen 6:5-6 : 5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil. 6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.