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Matthew 7:8-10
New English Translation
Matthew 7:8-10
New English Translation
8 For everyone who asks[a] receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is[b] there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?[c]
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- Matthew 7:8 sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the additional encouragement that God does respond to such requests/actions.
- Matthew 7:9 tn Grk “Or is there.”
- Matthew 7:10 sn The two questions of vv. 9-10 use a construction in Greek that expects a negative answer: “No parent would do this!”
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