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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
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God's 'How Much More' Promise
Jesus uses a powerful 'how much more' argument. Commentators explain that if even sinful, imperfect human parents know how to give good gifts, we can be absolutely confident that our perfect Heavenly Father is infinitely more willing and able to give what is best when we ask. This logic is meant to build our faith in prayer.
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Luke
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Know how to give (οιδατε διδονα). See on Mt 7:11 for this same saying. Only here Jesus adds the Holy Spirit (πνευμα αγιον) as the …
19th Century
Anglican
How much more shall your heavenly Father . . .?—We note a change here also, the one highest gift of the…
Baptist
Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, kn…
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The bizarre examples in vv.11–12 reinforce the point that God will respond to our petitions only in kindness. There are two steps in the argument: …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children (See Gill on Matthew 7:11).
Presbyterian
Christ encourages fervency and constancy in prayer. We must come for what we need, as a person does to their neighbor or friend, who is kind to the…
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