5 You hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your friend’s eye.
6 “Don’t give holy things to dogs, and don’t throw your pearls before pigs. Pigs will only trample on them, and dogs will turn to attack you.
7 “Ask, and God will give to you. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will open for you.
8 Yes, everyone who asks will receive. Everyone who searches will find. And everyone who knocks will have the door opened.
9 “If your children ask for bread, which of you would give them a stone?
10 Or if your children ask for a fish, would you give them a snake?
11 Even though you are bad, you know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more your heavenly Father will give good things to those who ask him!