Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Parallel translations
- KJV Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
- BSB Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
- NKJV Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
- NASB Or what person is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone?
- NLT “You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead?
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- Luke 11:11–13“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
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