Luke 11:10–18
10For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.↗
11“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?↗
12Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?↗
13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”↗
14He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.↗
15But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”↗
16Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.↗
17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them,“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.↗
18If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.↗
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