 | John Bate - 1881 - 574 pages
...apparel and luxuriant food. God thus opens to us our need of the Spirit, and then says to us, ' If ye, 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 ? ' Nothing is more true to experience than that... | |
 | Charles Foster (writer on the Bible.) - 1882 - 788 pages
...stone ? or if he asked for a, fish, would you give him a serpent t If you, then, who are sinful men, know how to give good things to your children, how much more certain is it that your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him. Jesus said... | |
 | MONSIGNOR GAUME - 1883 - 902 pages
...if he ask for a fish, reach him a serpent? If then you — foolish, imperfect, wicked as you are — know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him ? Now, this is the manner in... | |
 | Robert Bird - 1892 - 518 pages
...more precious than anything a man can give to his child. " If you then, being men," He continued, " know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ? " — That Holy Spirit, of which... | |
 | Ephraim J. Castle - 1895 - 282 pages
...to us. He giveth his things without measure, he giveth liberally, he giveth all that he hath. If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven know how to give you good things, for he hasn't any but good things to give... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1896 - 382 pages
...fish, will he give him a serpent ? or if he ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, 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." And then, in addition to all that,... | |
 | 1896 - 672 pages
...asks bread, will you give him a stone ? If he asks fish, will you give him a serpent? If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall the Father give good things to them that ask him ! Dear Father, we believe that Thou art all and more... | |
 | 1896 - 678 pages
...asks bread, will you give him a stone ? If he asks fish, will you give him a serpent ? If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall the Father give good things to them that ask him ! Dear Father, we believe that Thou art all and more... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1897 - 270 pages
...child asks bread, will you give him a stone? If he asks fish, will you give him a serpent? If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall the Father •give good things to them that ask him ! IMMORTALITY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE MODERN... | |
 | Charles Gordon Ames - 1903 - 92 pages
...Heart beats most strongly. Jesus himself thus reasons upward from human love to the divine : " If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall the heavenly Father ? " There must be something in man which answers to God, — responds to his touch.... | |
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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. 
