Matthew 7:10
New International Version
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

New Living Translation
Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not!

English Standard Version
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?

Berean Standard Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

Berean Literal Bible
Or also, if he will ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?

King James Bible
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

New King James Version
Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?

New American Standard Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

NASB 1995
“Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

NASB 1977
“Or if he shall ask for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

Legacy Standard Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

Amplified Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, will [instead] give him a snake?

Christian Standard Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

American Standard Version
or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if he will ask him for a fish, will he hand him a snake?

Contemporary English Version
Would you give your child a snake if the child asked for a fish?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?

English Revised Version
or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Or if your child asks for a fish, would you give him a snake?

Good News Translation
Or would you give him a snake when he asks for a fish?

International Standard Version
Or if he asks for a fish, he wouldn't give him a snake, would he?

Literal Standard Version
And if he may ask [for] a fish—a serpent will he present to him?

Majority Standard Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

New American Bible
or a snake when he asks for a fish?

NET Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

New Revised Standard Version
Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake?

New Heart English Bible
Or if he will ask for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

Webster's Bible Translation
Or if he shall ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Weymouth New Testament
Or if the son shall ask him for a fish will offer him a snake?

World English Bible
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

Young's Literal Translation
and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Ask, Seek, Knock
9Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!…

Cross References
Matthew 7:9
Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Matthew 7:11
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

John 3:14
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.


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Matthew 7
1. Do Not Judge
7. Ask, Seek, Knock
13. Enter through the Narrow Gate
15. A Tree and Its Fruit
24. The Wise and the Foolish Builders
28. Jesus ends his sermon, and the people are astonished.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Or
(ē)
Conjunction
Strong's 2228: Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than.

[if]
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

he asks for
αἰτήσει (aitēsei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 154: To ask, request, petition, demand. Of uncertain derivation; to ask.

a fish,
ἰχθὺν (ichthyn)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2486: A fish. Of uncertain affinity; a fish.

will give
ἐπιδώσει (epidōsei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1929: (a) trans: I hand in, give up, (b) intrans: I give way (to the wind). From epi and didomi; to give over.

him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

a snake?
ὄφιν (ophin)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3789: Probably from optanomai; a snake, figuratively, an artful malicious person, especially Satan.


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