 | John Albert Broadus - 1876 - 530 pages
...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 is... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1876 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | Louis Charles Gay (bp. of Anthédon.) - 1878 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 298 pages
...shall have them. And when ye pray, if ye have aught against any man, forgive. . . . If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him ? — Jesus Christ; Israelite.... | |
 | Hugh Sinclair Paterson - 1880 - 224 pages
...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 us good... | |
 | 1880 - 588 pages
...ask for an 13 egg, will give him a scorpion ? If ye then, though evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him ! Chap. XI. 2-4. Sea Matt vi. 8-18. Ver. 9-13. See Matt. vii.... | |
 | John Bate - 1881 - 574 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 which you shall... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 482 pages
...who, if his son asks bread, will he give him a stone ? If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him." Thus he authorized us to argue from the finite goodness of an earthly... | |
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If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 
