Matthew 7:10
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Matthew 7:10 in other translations
| BSB | Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? |
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| WEB | Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? |
| ASV | or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? |
| YLT | and if a fish he may ask--a serpent will he present to him? |
| DARBY | and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent? |
| BBE | Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake? |
| Webster | Or if he shall ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? |
What does Matthew 7:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 7:7-11
Prayer is the appointed means for obtaining what we need. Pray; pray often; make a business of prayer, and be serious and earnest in it. Ask, as a beggar asks alms. Ask, as a traveller asks the way. Seek, as for a thing of value that we have lost; or as the merchantman that seeks goodly pearls. Knock, as he that desires to enter into the house knocks at the door. Sin has shut and barred the door against us; by…
Matthew 7:10 in the original Greek
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Context
- Matthew 7:9
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
- Matthew 7:10
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
- Matthew 7:11
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?
Matthew 7:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Y si le pidiere un pez, le dará una serpiente? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et s’il demande un poisson, lui donne un serpent? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und wenn er um einen Fisch bitten würde, ihm eine Schlange gegeben wird? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | aut si piscem petierit, numquid serpentem porriget ei? |