Matthew 7:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Matthew 7:10 —

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Afflictions and Adversities Backsliders Blessing Commandments Devotion Discipleship Disobedience to God Duty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-11)

Our Saviour, in the foregoing chapter, had spoken of prayer as a commanded duty, by which God is honoured, and which, if done aright, shall be rewarded; here he speaks of it as the appointed means of obtaining what we need, especially grace to obey the precepts he had given, some of which are so displeasing to flesh and blood. I. Here is a precept in three words to the same purport, Ask, Seek, Kno…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?--like it, indeed, but only to sting him.