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Luke 11:1¹Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 19:14 Rom 8:26-27 Jude 1:20 Luke 22:39-45 Luke 6:12 Luke 9:18 Jas 4:2-3 Luke 9:28 Ps 10:17 Heb 5:7

Luke 11:2²So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 6:6-15 Eccl 5:2 Ps 72:18-19 Rev 15:4 1 Thess 3:11-13 2 Chr 20:6 Ps 11:4 Rev 20:4 1 Cor 1:3 1 Thess 1:3

Luke 11:3³Give us each day our daily bread,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 6:11 Matt 6:34 Prov 30:8 Exod 16:15-22 Isa 33:16 John 6:27-33

Luke 11:4⁴and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 6:12-15 Matt 26:41 2 Thess 3:3 Col 3:13 Isa 43:25-26 Matt 18:35 Jas 2:13 1 John 1:8-10 2 Cor 12:7-8 2 Tim 4:18

Luke 11:5⁵Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 18:1-8

Luke 11:6⁶because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Luke 11:7⁷Then he will reply from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 6:17 Luke 13:25 Luke 7:6 Matt 25:10

Luke 11:8⁸I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man’s sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 32:26 Col 4:12 Luke 18:1-8 Rom 15:30 Matt 15:22-28 2 Cor 12:8 Col 2:1

Luke 11:9⁹“So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 11:24 John 16:23-24 Matt 21:22 John 15:16 John 15:7 1 John 5:14-15 John 14:13 1 John 3:22 Matt 7:7-11 Jas 1:5

Luke 11:10¹⁰For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 4:3 Lam 3:18 Lam 3:54-58 Jas 5:11 Jonah 2:2-8 Luke 18:1 Ps 31:22 Lam 3:8

Luke 11:11¹¹What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 7:9 Isa 49:15

Luke 11:12¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 2:6 Luke 10:19 Rev 9:10

Luke 11:13¹³If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 7:11 Isa 44:3-4 Rom 8:32 John 4:10 Prov 1:23 Acts 2:38 John 7:37-39 Joel 2:28 Ezek 36:27 Isa 49:15

Luke 11:14¹⁴Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 12:22-24 Matt 9:32-34 Mark 7:32-37

Luke 11:15¹⁵But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 9:34 John 10:20 John 7:20 John 8:48 John 8:52 Luke 11:18-19 Mark 3:22-30 Matt 10:25 Matt 12:24-30

Luke 11:16¹⁶Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:22 John 6:30 Mark 8:11-12 Matt 12:38-39 Matt 16:1-4

Luke 11:17¹⁷But Jesus, realizing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and a divided household falls.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 3:23-27 Matt 12:25-29 Isa 19:2-3 Isa 9:20-21 John 2:25 2 Chr 10:16-19 2 Chr 13:16-17 Matt 9:4 Rev 2:23

Luke 11:18¹⁸So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 12:26 Matt 12:31-34 Jas 3:5-8 Luke 11:15 Matt 4:10

Luke 11:19¹⁹Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 9:49 Job 15:6 Luke 11:31-32 Luke 19:22 Matt 12:27-28 Matt 12:41-42 Rom 3:19

Luke 11:20²⁰But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 8:19 Matt 12:28 Luke 10:9 Matt 3:2 Dan 2:44 2 Thess 1:5 Luke 10:11 Acts 20:25 Acts 28:23-28

Luke 11:21²¹When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 3:27 Matt 12:29

Luke 11:22²²But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man’s armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 49:24-25 Isa 53:12 1 John 3:8 1 John 4:4 Col 2:15 Gen 3:15 Isa 27:1 Isa 63:1-4 Rev 20:1-3

Luke 11:23²³Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 12:30 Luke 9:50 Mark 9:40 Rev 3:15-16

Luke 11:24²⁴“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 12:43-45 1 Pet 5:8 Job 2:2 Ps 63:1 Job 1:7 Mark 5:10 Eph 2:2 Isa 44:3 Isa 57:20-21 Isa 48:22

Luke 11:25²⁵When it returns, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:10-19 2 Thess 2:9-12 Jude 1:8-13 Matt 12:44-45 Ps 36:3 Ps 81:11-12 2 Chr 24:17-22 Ps 125:5

Luke 11:26²⁶Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:20-22 John 5:14 Matt 12:45 Zeph 1:6 1 John 5:16 Heb 10:26-31 Heb 6:4-8 Jude 1:12-13 Matt 23:15

Luke 11:27²⁷As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 1:42 Luke 1:48 Luke 23:29 Luke 1:28

Luke 11:28²⁸But he replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 6:47-48 Luke 8:21 Ps 112:1 Jas 1:21-25 John 13:17 Isa 48:17-18 Ps 1:1-3 1 John 3:21-24 Ps 119:1-6 Matt 12:48-50

Luke 11:29²⁹As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 11:16 Mark 8:11-12 1 Cor 1:22 Matt 12:38-42 Luke 12:1 Mark 8:38 Matt 3:7 Acts 7:51-52 Isa 57:3-4 John 2:18

Luke 11:30³⁰For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 12:40-42 Jonah 3:2-10 Jonah 1:17 Luke 24:46-47 Jonah 2:10

Luke 11:31³¹The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon—and now, something greater than Solomon is here!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 9:1 1 Kgs 10:1-13 Jer 3:11 Luke 3:22 Rom 2:27 Luke 9:35 Matt 12:42 Heb 11:7 Isa 9:6-7

Luke 11:32³²The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them —and now, something greater than Jonah is here!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jonah 3:5-4:4 Heb 7:26 Jonah 1:2-3 Jonah 4:9 Luke 11:31

Luke 11:33³³“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 8:16-17 Mark 4:21-22 Matt 5:15-16 John 12:46 Phil 2:15-16 John 11:9 Matt 10:27

Luke 11:34³⁴Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 6:22-23 Acts 26:18 2 Cor 4:4 Jer 5:21 Ps 119:18 Rom 11:8-10 Col 3:22 2 Cor 11:3 2 Thess 2:9-12 Eph 1:17

Luke 11:35³⁵Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 16:25 2 Pet 1:9 Jas 3:13-17 1 Cor 1:19-21 1 Cor 3:18-20 Isa 5:20-21 Rev 3:17 Rom 1:22 2 Pet 2:18 John 9:39-41

Luke 11:36³⁶If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 20:27 Prov 4:18-19 Prov 6:23 2 Cor 4:6 2 Pet 3:18 2 Tim 3:15-17 Prov 1:5 Col 3:16 Heb 5:14 Prov 2:1-11

Luke 11:37³⁷As he spoke, a Pharisee invited Jesus to have a meal with him, so he went in and took his place at the table.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 7:36 1 Cor 9:19-23 Luke 14:1

Luke 11:38³⁸The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 15:2-3 John 3:25 Mark 7:2-5

Luke 11:39³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Titus 1:15 Gen 6:5 Luke 16:15 Matt 7:15 Prov 30:12 Acts 5:3 Acts 8:21-23 Jas 4:8 John 12:6 Matt 15:19

Luke 11:40⁴⁰You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 12:20 1 Cor 15:36 Matt 23:17 Matt 23:26 Prov 1:22 Prov 8:5 Ps 94:8-9 Gen 1:26 Gen 2:7 Heb 12:9

Luke 11:41⁴¹But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 12:33 Jas 1:27 Titus 1:15 Acts 10:15 Heb 13:16 Luke 16:9 2 Cor 8:7-9 Dan 4:27 Isa 58:7-11 Matt 6:1-4

Luke 11:42⁴²“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 23:23 Luke 18:12 Prov 21:3 1 John 4:20 Deut 10:12-13 Mal 3:8 Mic 6:8 1 Sam 15:22 Matt 23:27 2 Chr 31:5-10

Luke 11:43⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 20:46 Mark 12:38-39 Luke 14:7-11 Matt 23:6-7 3 John 1:9 Jas 2:2-4 Phil 2:3 Prov 16:18 Rom 12:10

Luke 11:44⁴⁴Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 23:27-28 Ps 5:9 Acts 23:3 Num 19:16 Hos 9:8

Luke 11:45⁴⁵One of the experts in religious law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 9:40 Matt 22:35 1 Kgs 22:8 Amos 7:10-13 Jer 20:8 Jer 6:10 John 7:48 John 7:7 Luke 11:46 Luke 11:52

Luke 11:46⁴⁶But Jesus replied, “Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 10:1 Luke 11:52 Matt 23:2-4 Gal 6:13 Luke 11:45 Isa 58:6

Luke 11:47⁴⁷Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:15 Acts 7:51 Matt 23:29-33

Luke 11:48⁴⁸So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:16 Jas 5:10 Acts 7:51-52 Matt 21:35-38 Matt 23:31 Heb 11:35-38 Ezek 18:19 Josh 24:22

Luke 11:49⁴⁹For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:30 Col 2:3 1 Cor 1:24 Eph 4:11 Acts 1:8 Acts 22:20 Acts 7:57-8:1 Acts 8:3 Acts 9:1-2 Luke 24:47

Luke 11:50⁵⁰so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 9:5-6 2 Kgs 24:4 Rev 18:20-24 Num 35:33 Isa 26:21 Jer 51:56 Jer 7:29 Ps 9:12 Exod 20:5

Luke 11:51⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 24:20-22 Heb 11:4 Matt 23:35 1 John 3:12 Gen 4:8-11 Zech 1:1 Heb 12:24 Jer 7:28

Luke 11:52⁵²Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 23:13 Mal 2:7 Acts 4:17-18 Luke 11:45-46 John 9:24-34 John 7:47-52 Acts 5:40 Luke 19:39-40

Luke 11:53⁵³When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 13:5 Isa 9:12 Jer 18:18 Jer 20:10 Luke 20:20 Luke 20:27 Ps 22:12-13

Luke 11:54⁵⁴plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 12:13 Matt 22:15 Matt 22:35 Luke 20:20 Matt 22:18 Ps 37:32-33 Ps 56:5-6 Mark 3:2

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