Luke 11

1When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”Cross-references: Ps 10:17 · Ps 19:14 · Luke 6:12 · Luke 9:18 · Luke 9:28 · Luke 22:39 · +4 more

2He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Lev 22:23 · 1Ki 8:43 · 2Ki 19:19 · 2Chr 20:6 · Ps 11:4 · +38 more

3Give us day by day our daily bread.Cross-references: Ex 16:15 · Prov 30:8 · Isa 33:16 · Matt 6:11 · Matt 6:34 · John 6:27

4Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”Cross-references: Gen 48:16 · 1Ki 8:34 · 1Ki 8:36 · Ps 25:11 · Ps 25:18 · Ps 32:1 · +23 more

5He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,Cross-references: Luke 18:1

6for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

7and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?Cross-references: Matt 25:10 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 13:25 · Gal 6:17

8I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · Matt 15:22 · Luke 18:1 · Rom 15:30 · 2Cor 12:8 · Col 2:1 · +1 more

9“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.Cross-references: Ps 27:4 · Ps 27:8 · Ps 34:4 · Ps 34:10 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 105:3 · +33 more

10For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.Cross-references: Ps 31:22 · Lam 3:8 · Lam 3:18 · Lam 3:54 · Jonah 2:2 · Luke 18:1 · +2 more

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?Cross-references: Isa 49:15 · Matt 7:9

12Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?Cross-references: Ezek 2:6 · Luke 10:19 · Rev 9:10

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?”Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Job 15:14 · Ps 51:5 · Prov 1:23 · Isa 44:3 · +22 more

14He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.Cross-references: Matt 9:32 · Matt 12:22 · Mark 7:32

15But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”Cross-references: Matt 9:34 · Matt 10:25 · Matt 12:24 · Mark 3:22 · Luke 11:18 · John 7:20 · +3 more

16Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.Cross-references: Matt 12:38 · Matt 16:1 · Mark 8:11 · John 6:30 · 1Cor 1:22

17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.Cross-references: 2Chr 10:16 · 2Chr 13:16 · Isa 9:20 · Isa 19:2 · Matt 9:4 · Matt 12:25 · +3 more

18If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.Cross-references: Matt 4:10 · Matt 12:26 · Matt 12:31 · Luke 11:15 · James 3:5

19But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.Cross-references: Job 15:6 · Matt 12:27 · Matt 12:41 · Luke 9:49 · Luke 11:31 · Luke 19:22 · +1 more

20But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.Cross-references: Ex 8:19 · Dan 2:44 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 12:28 · Luke 10:9 · Luke 10:11 · +3 more

21“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.Cross-references: Matt 12:29 · Mark 3:27

22But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 49:24 · Isa 53:12 · Isa 63:1 · Col 2:15 · +3 more

23“He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.Cross-references: Matt 12:30 · Mark 9:40 · Luke 9:50 · Rev 3:15

24The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’Cross-references: Judg 6:37 · Job 1:7 · Job 2:2 · Ps 63:1 · Prov 4:16 · Isa 35:1 · +11 more

25When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.Cross-references: 2Chr 24:17 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 81:11 · Ps 125:5 · Matt 12:44 · 2Thess 2:9 · +2 more

26Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”Cross-references: Zeph 1:6 · Matt 12:45 · Matt 23:15 · John 5:14 · Heb 6:4 · Heb 10:26 · +3 more

27It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”Cross-references: Luke 1:28 · Luke 1:42 · Luke 1:48 · Luke 23:29

28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”Cross-references: Ps 1:1 · Ps 112:1 · Ps 119:1 · Ps 128:1 · Isa 48:17 · Matt 7:21 · +7 more

29When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.Cross-references: Isa 57:3 · Matt 3:7 · Matt 12:38 · Matt 16:1 · Matt 23:34 · Mark 8:11 · +11 more

30For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.Cross-references: Jonah 1:17 · Jonah 2:10 · Jonah 3:2 · Matt 12:40 · Luke 24:46

31The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:1 · 2Chr 9:1 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 54:17 · Jer 3:11 · Matt 12:42 · +5 more

32The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.Cross-references: Jonah 1:2 · Jonah 3:5 · Jonah 4:9 · Luke 11:31 · Heb 7:26

33“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.Cross-references: Matt 5:15 · Matt 10:27 · Mark 4:21 · Luke 8:16 · John 11:9 · John 12:46 · +1 more

34The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.Cross-references: Gen 19:11 · 2Ki 6:15 · Ps 81:12 · Ps 119:18 · Prov 28:22 · Isa 6:10 · +19 more

35Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.Cross-references: Prov 16:25 · Prov 26:12 · Isa 5:20 · Jer 8:8 · John 7:48 · John 9:39 · +8 more

36If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”Cross-references: Ps 119:97 · Prov 1:5 · Prov 2:1 · Prov 4:18 · Prov 6:23 · Prov 20:27 · +13 more

37Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table.Cross-references: Luke 7:36 · Luke 14:1 · 1Cor 9:19

38When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.Cross-references: Matt 15:2 · Mark 7:2 · John 3:25

39The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · 2Chr 25:2 · 2Chr 31:20 · Ps 22:13 · Prov 26:25 · Prov 30:12 · +18 more

40You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 2:7 · Num 16:22 · Ps 14:1 · Ps 33:15 · Ps 75:4 · +11 more

41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.Cross-references: Deut 15:8 · Job 13:16 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 112:9 · Prov 14:31 · Prov 19:17 · +29 more

42But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.Cross-references: Lev 27:30 · Deut 10:12 · 1Sam 15:22 · 2Chr 31:5 · Neh 10:37 · Prov 21:3 · +16 more

43Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.Cross-references: Prov 16:18 · Matt 23:6 · Mark 12:38 · Luke 14:7 · Luke 20:46 · Rom 12:10 · +3 more

44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”Cross-references: Num 19:16 · Ps 5:9 · Hos 9:8 · Matt 23:27 · Acts 23:3

45One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:8 · Jer 6:10 · Jer 20:8 · Amos 7:10 · Matt 22:35 · Luke 11:46 · +4 more

46He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.Cross-references: Isa 10:1 · Isa 58:6 · Matt 23:2 · Luke 11:45 · Luke 11:52 · Gal 6:13

47Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Cross-references: Matt 23:29 · Acts 7:51 · 1Thess 2:15

48So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.Cross-references: Josh 24:22 · 2Chr 36:16 · Job 15:6 · Ps 64:8 · Ezek 18:19 · Matt 21:35 · +4 more

49Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,Cross-references: Prov 1:2 · Prov 8:1 · Prov 9:1 · Matt 22:6 · Matt 23:34 · Luke 21:16 · +15 more

50that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,Cross-references: Gen 9:5 · Ex 20:5 · Num 35:33 · 2Ki 24:4 · Ps 9:12 · Isa 26:21 · +3 more

51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.Cross-references: Gen 4:8 · 2Chr 24:20 · Jer 7:28 · Zech 1:1 · Matt 23:35 · Heb 11:4 · +2 more

52Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”Cross-references: Mal 2:7 · Matt 23:13 · Luke 11:45 · Luke 19:39 · John 7:47 · John 9:24 · +2 more

53As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,Cross-references: Ps 22:12 · Isa 9:12 · Jer 18:18 · Jer 20:10 · Luke 20:20 · Luke 20:27 · +1 more

54lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.Cross-references: Ps 37:32 · Ps 56:5 · Matt 22:15 · Matt 22:18 · Matt 22:35 · Mark 3:2 · +2 more