 | Nicholas Snethen - 1846 - 492 pages
...personal. The spirit is not imputed but imparted. " If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the holy spirit lo them that ask him ?" Love, joy, peace, meekness, gentlenesss, patience long-suffering are all in... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1847 - 500 pages
...he ask a fish will give him a serpent? If you," said He, " being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him." But this asking must be with frequency and fervency of spirit, from a sense... | |
 | John Wesley - 1847 - 748 pages
...shall ask an egg, will he give him u 13 scorpion? If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spjrit to them that ask him ? 14 f And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb: and when the devil... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1847 - 184 pages
...his soul, but distressed by reason of darkness ? " If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ?" If any one be in the outset of his religious inquiries, he will feel a special... | |
 | Ichabod Smith Spencer - 1851 - 440 pages
...without the Holy Spirit." " Madam, the text is plain, ' if ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to — " " Bat I am not one ol his children, sir." " The text does not say, to his children, my dear... | |
 | Christian Carl J. freiherr von Bunsen - 1852 - 444 pages
...Amen. Choir. Amen. Amen. Amen. Minister. Let us pray. O Lord Jesu Christ, Son of God, who hast said, " If ye who are evil know how to give good gifts to...children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ;" and, " If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything... | |
 | James Murdock - 1852 - 558 pages
...reach to him a serpent? (12) Or, if he ask of him an egg, will he reach to him a 13 scorpion? (13) And if ye, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? 14 And as he was casting out a demon... | |
 | 1852 - 678 pages
...a mercy, to one so vile as me, that it is written, " If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ? " It is intimate intercourse with this Spirit that will quicken us to run the... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...that Holy Spirit whose aid everyone may have who seeks : "If ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ? " Be ye not therefore conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1852 - 660 pages
...give you worse than you ask, but always better. " If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." Do not think that God's delay is unwillingness : his willingness is infinite... | |
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If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 
