Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
or if he asks for an egg, will offer him a scorpion?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Or if he asks for an egg, would he give him a scorpion?
A Conservative Version
Or if he should ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
American Standard Version
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Or, if he asks [him] for an egg, will give him a scorpion [instead]? [Note: While at rest a scorpion rolls up in a ball that resembles an egg].
Anderson New Testament
Or if he ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Bible in Basic English
Or for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Common New Testament
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or instead of an egg will he offer him a scorpion?
Darby Translation
or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?
Godbey New Testament
Or indeed shall he ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Goodspeed New Testament
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
John Wesley New Testament
Or if he ask a fish, for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Julia Smith Translation
Or also if he ask an egg, he will not give him a scorpion.
King James 2000
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or also, [if] he will ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Modern King James verseion
Or if he shall ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Or if he ask an egg: will he offer him a scorpion?
Moffatt New Testament
Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion?
Montgomery New Testament
"Or if he asks for an egg, will offer him a scorpion?
NET Bible
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
New Heart English Bible
Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
Noyes New Testament
or, if he ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Sawyer New Testament
or if he asks also for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
The Emphasized Bible
Or shall also ask, an egg, who will give him, a scorpion?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
or if he ask also an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Webster
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Williams New Testament
Or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
World English Bible
Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
Worrell New Testament
or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Worsley New Testament
will he give him a scorpion?
Youngs Literal Translation
and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion?
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 11:12
Images Luke 11:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ask, Seek, Knock
11 And what father is there among you, who, if his son asks for a slice of bread, will offer him a stone? or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish offer him a snake? 12 or if he asks for an egg, will offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, with all your human frailty, know how to give your children gifts that are good for them, how much more certainly will your Father who is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"
Names
Cross References
Luke 10:19
"I have given you power to tread serpents and scorpions underfoot, and to trample on all the power of the Enemy; and in no case shall anything do you harm.
Revelation 9:10
They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months.