Luke 11:4-27

⁴and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.

⁵And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,

⁶since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him;

⁷and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give it thee?

⁸— I say to you, Although he will not get up and give them to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

⁹And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

¹⁰For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.

¹¹But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and the father shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

¹²or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?

¹³If 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?

¹⁴And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb man spoke. And the crowds wondered.

¹⁵But some from among them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts he out demons.

¹⁶And others tempting him sought from him a sign out of heaven.

¹⁷But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a house set against a house falls;

¹⁸and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.

¹⁹But if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons — by whom do they cast them out? For this reason they shall be your judges.

²⁰But if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

²¹When the strong man armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;

²²but when the stronger than he coming upon him overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil he has taken from him.

²³He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters.

²⁴When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding any he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.

²⁵And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.

²⁶Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.

²⁷And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.