Luke 11:9–13
If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father
Study it word by word9And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
11And which of you fathers, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?
12Or if he also asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
13So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
In its context
7and that one from inside answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’?
8I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
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14And he was casting out a demon that was mute; and it happened, when the demon had gone out, that the mute man spoke; and the crowds marveled.
15But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, he casts out the demons.”
Its words in the original
- ΚἀγὼKagō· and I, I also
And I, I too.
- λέγωlegō· say
Say, speak; in the passive, "be called".
- αἰτεῖτεaiteite· ask
Ask, ask for.
- δοθήσεταιdothēsetai· give
Give.
- ζητεῖτεzēteite· seek
Look for, seek; try to.
- εὑρήσετεheurēsete· find
Find; in the passive, turn out to be, be found to be so.
- κρούετεkrouete· knock
Knock, strike at a door.
- ἀνοιγήσεταιanoigēsetai· open
Open.
- λαμβάνειlambanei· take, receive
Take, receive.
- πατέραpatera· father, Father
Father; also ancestor.
- υἱὸςhuios· son, Son
Son. Also descendant: "son of David" means one of King David's family, and is a title of the promised Messiah.
- ἰχθύνichthyn· fish
Fish.
- ἀντὶanti· in place of, for
Instead of, in exchange for.
- ὄφινophin· snake
Snake, serpent.
- ἐπιδώσειepidōsei· hand over, give
Give, hand over, put into someone's hand; also give way.
- ᾠόνōion· egg
Egg.
- σκορπίονskorpion· scorpion
Scorpion.
- πονηροὶponēroi· evil, wicked
Bad, wicked. "The evil one": the devil.
- ὑπάρχοντεςhyparchontes· be, exist
Be, exist, be present; "what one has", one's possessions.
- οἴδατεoidate· know
Know, understand; also see.
- δόματαdomata· gift
Gift.
- ἀγαθὰagatha· good
Good.
- τέκνοιςteknois· child
Child, son, daughter.
- πόσῳposōi· how much, how many
How much, how great; how many.
- μᾶλλονmallon· more, rather
More, rather.
- οὐρανοῦouranou· heaven, sky
Heaven: the sky and, above all, the place of God. "The heavens" is sometimes a respectful way of saying "God".
- πνεῦμαpneuma· spirit, Spirit
Spirit; also wind and breath. With "holy", the Holy Spirit of God.
- ἅγιονhagion· holy
Holy: set apart for God, pure, belonging to him.