Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

General references

Bible References

A son

Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Matthew 7:9
What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

General references

Matthew 7:9
What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

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