Matthew 7:11 Cross References - Lamsa

¹¹ If therefore you who err, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

¹⁰ And the angel said to them, Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which will be to all the world. ¹¹ For today is born to you in the city of David, a Saviour, who is the Lord Christ.

¹¹ For who is among you, a father, if his son should ask him bread, why, would he hand him a stone? and if he should ask him a fish, why, would he hand him a snake instead of a fish? ¹² And if he should ask him for an egg, why, would he hand him a scorpion? ¹³ So if you, who err, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father give the Holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he even gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

⁹ What then do we uphold that is superior? We have already decided concerning both Jews and Syrians, for they are all under sin.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it is said to those who are under the law: so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may become guilty before God.

⁸ God has here manifested his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, being justified by his blood, we shall be delivered from wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

³² If he did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, why will he not freely give us all things with him?

⁸ God is able to make all goodness abound to you, and may you always have enough of everything for yourselves, and may you abound in every good work: ⁹ As it is written, He has distributed liberally; and given to the poor; and his righteousness endures for ever. ¹⁰ Now he who gives seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed, and cause the fruits of your righteousness to grow; ¹¹ That you may be enriched in everything, in all liberality, for such generosity enables us to perfect thanksgiving to God. ¹² For the administration of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints, but it also is made abundant by many thanksgivings to God. ¹³ By this experiment of charitable service they glorify God in that you have subjected yourselves to the faith of the gospel of Christ, and through your generosity you have become partakers with them and with all men, ¹⁴ And they offer prayer on your behalf with greater love, because of the abundance of the grace of God which has been on you. ¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his incomparable gift.

²² But the scripture has included everything under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

¹ AND he has quickened you also who were dead because of your sins and trespasses; ² In which you previously walked according to the worldly course of this world, and according to the will of the supreme ruler of the air, the spirit which is active in the children of disobedience. ³ In those very deeds in which we were also corrupted from the very beginning through the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the wills of the flesh and of the mind: thereby we became completely the children of wrath, even as others. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ Even when we were dead in our sins, has made us live together with Christ, by whose grace we are saved;

³ For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, misled, and serving divers lusts and passions, living in malice and envy, hated, and also hating one another. ⁴ But after the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour was manifested, ⁵ Not so much by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; ⁶ Which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of change.

¹ SEE how abundant the love of the Fa ther is toward us, for he has called us sons and made us: therefore the world does not know us because it did not know him.

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.