Luke 11:11

World English Bible (2000)

"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?

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  • Isa 49:15 : 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!
  • Matt 7:9 : 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

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