Matthew 7:11-13
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
11 If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and [a]advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and [b]advantageous things to those who [c]keep on asking Him!
12 So then, whatever you desire that others would do to and for you, even so do also to and for them, for this is (sums up) the Law and the Prophets.
13 Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Matthew 7:11 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
- Matthew 7:11 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
- Matthew 7:11 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.
Matthew 7:11-13
King James Version
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
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