 | Edith Rowley - 1866 - 130 pages
...The which I am particularly encouraged to expect, when I remember that passage of scripture, ' If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give His holy Spirit to them that ask Him.' I would also desire of the Lord, that He... | |
 | 1866 - 246 pages
...large, venomous insect, found in hot countries. " If you then who are wicked," concludes our Lord, " know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask them of Him ?" QUESTIONS. 1. What is signified... | |
 | 1870 - 534 pages
...we weuld be willing a thousand times to do for our children ? Tbou dost reply to us, saying, If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more your Father which is in heaven I And iu this comfortable assurance, in this joyful trust of thy goodness,... | |
 | John Christien - 1871 - 188 pages
...teachings, the conversational talk of Jesus of Nazareth. " One is your Father, He who is in heaven : if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give good things to them that ask Him : Have faith in God; He loveth you." " When you... | |
 | Joseph Lambillotte - 1873 - 462 pages
...will he give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? If then you, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father from Heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask Him ?" (St. Luke xi. 11.) Have you... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pages
...with orators, and is very often found in the teachings of our Lord and the apostles. " If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father," etc. " If God so *Vinet, p. 174, 176. L clothe the grass of the field,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1876 - 528 pages
...how readily an earthly parent bestows what affection prompts ; this word is spoken to faith ; " If ye being evil know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him " (Matt. vii. 11). A Commentary on the Gospel... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1876 - 530 pages
...is very often found in * Vinet, p. :74~5. the teachings of our Lord and the apostles. " If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father," etc. " If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow... | |
 | Louis Charles Gay (bp. of Anthédon.) - 1878 - 484 pages
...a serpent, or a scorpion ? " And see the Divine conclusion which He draws from this fact : " If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father Who is in heaven give to those who ask Him His Holy Spirit," and the infinite blessing of which... | |
 | Hugh Sinclair Paterson - 1880 - 224 pages
...than that spoken by the Lord Jesus : if we ask good things from God, He will give them to us. " If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask Him ? " I believe that God never refuses... | |
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If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children ; how much more shall your Father which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him ? Matt. 
