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Matthew 7:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11If 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?
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
Argues from flawed parents' good gifts toward the heavenly Father's greater goodness.
Read It With
- Matthew 7:7–7:12
Read Matthew 7:11 with 7:7–7:12. In isolation, this verse's contribution—argues from flawed parents' good gifts toward the heavenly Father's greater goodness—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jesus urges asking, seeking, and knocking, compares flawed human parents who give good gifts, and sums up Law and Prophets in active neighbor-regard.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Matthew 7:7–7:12 — Persistent asking rests in the Father's goodnessSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 7:7–7:12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 7:7–7:12
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