Luke 11:13 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
If 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?”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
If 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?”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall [your ]heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
MSB Majority Standard Bible
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
LSV Literal Standard Version
If, then, you, being evil, have known to be giving good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!”
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
If therefore ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
If ye then, 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?
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
If yee then which are euill, can giue good giftes vnto your children, howe much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Ghost to them, that desire him?
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Therefore, if you 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 those who ask him?”
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
FBV Free Bible Version
So if you, even though you are evil, still know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Pues si vosotros, siendo malos, sabéis dar buenas dádivas á vuestros hijos ¿quánto mas vuestro Padre celestial dará espíritu bueno á los que se lo pidieren?
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Pues si vosotros, siendo malos, sabéis dar buenas dádivas á vuestros hijos, ¿cuánto más vuestro Padre celestial dará el Espíritu Santo á los que lo pidieren de él?
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Pues si ustedes, que son malos, saben darles cosas buenas a sus hijos, con mayor razón el Padre celestial dará el Espíritu Santo a quienes se lo pidan».
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Pues si ustedes, que son malos, saben dar buenos regalos a sus hijos, ¡Cuánto más el Padre celestial dará [el] Espíritu Santo a los que lo piden!
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
De modo que si ustedes, siendo malos, aun así saben darles cosas buenas a sus hijos, ¿cuánto más el Padre celestial le dará el Espíritu Santo a quienes se lo pidan?”
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Pues si ustedes, siendo malos, saben dar buenas cosas a sus hijos, ¿cuánto más su Padre celestial dará el Espíritu Santo a los que se lo pidan?
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
εἰ οὖν ὑμεῖς, ὑπάρχοντες πονηροί, οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει πνεῦμα ἀγαθὸν τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν;
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
ει ουν υμεις, υπαρχοντες πονηροι, οιδατε δοματα αγαθα διδοναι τοις τεκνοις υμων, ποσω μαλλον ο πατηρ ο εξ ουρανου δωσει πνευμα αγαθον τοις αιτουσιν αυτον;
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Εἰ οὖν ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὑπάρχοντες οἴδατε ἀγαθὰ δόματα διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει πνεῦμα ἅγιον τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν;
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
ει ουν υμεισ πονηροι υπαρχοντεσ οιδατε δοματα αγαθα διδοναι τοισ τεκνοισ υμων ποσω μαλλον ο πατηρ ο εξ ουρανου δωσει πνευμα αγιον τοισ αιτουσιν αυτον
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
εἰ οὖν ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὑπάρχοντες οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
εἰ οὖν ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὑπάρχοντες οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει πνεῦμα ἅγιον τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Si ergo vos, cum sitis mali, nostis bona data dare filiis vestris: quanto magis Pater vester de cælo dabit spiritum bonum petentibus se?
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
А҆́ще ᲂу҆̀бо вы̀ ѕлѝ сꙋ́ще, ᲂу҆мѣ́ете даѧ̑нїѧ бла̑га даѧ́ти ча́дѡмъ ва́шымъ, кольмѝ па́че ѻ҆ц҃ъ, и҆́же съ нб҃сѐ, да́стъ дх҃а ст҃а́го просѧ́щымъ ᲂу҆ негѡ̀;
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Итак, если вы, будучи злы, умеете даяния благие давать детям вашим, тем более Отец Небесный даст Духа Святаго просящим у Него.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
εάν λοιπόν σεις, πονηροί όντες, εξεύρετε να δίδητε καλάς δόσεις εις τα τέκνα σας, πόσω μάλλον ο Πατήρ ο ουράνιος θέλει δώσει Πνεύμα Άγιον εις τους αιτούντας παρ' αυτού;
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Кад дакле ви, зли будући, умете добре даре давати деци својој, колико ће више Отац небески дати Духа Светог онима који ишту у Њега?
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Kad dakle vi, zli budući, umete dobre dare davati deci svojoj, koliko će više Otac nebeski dati Duha Svetog onima koji ištu u Njega?
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
فَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ أَشْرَارٌ تَعْرِفُونَ أَنْ تُعْطُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ عَطَايَا جَيِّدَةً، فَكَمْ بِٱلْحَرِيِّ ٱلْآبُ ٱلَّذِي مِنَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ، يُعْطِي ٱلرُّوحَ ٱلْقُدُسَ لِلَّذِينَ يَسْأَلُونَهُ؟».
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC