Luke 6:38

Catholic Public Domain Version

Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again."

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:36

I, your servant, shall procede a little ways from the Jordan with you. I am not in need of this recompense.

Esther 7:10

"Remember," he said, "the days of your lowliness, how you were nurtured as if in my hand, because Haman, who is second after the king, has spoken against us to death.

Esther 9:25

And so Haman went out that day joyful and cheerful. And when he saw that Mordecai was sitting in front of the gate of the palace, and that he alone did not get up for him, but did not so much as move from the place where he sat, he was very indignant.

Job 42:11

Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.

Psalm 79:12

It extended its new branches even to the sea, and its new seedlings even to the river.

Exodus 21:24

an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord causes riches. Affliction will not be a companion to them.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.

Proverbs 22:9

Whoever is inclined to mercy shall be blessed, for from his bread he has given to the poor. Whoever gives gifts will acquire victory and honor. But he carries away the soul of the receiver.

Jeremiah 32:18

You act with mercy a thousand-fold, but you repay the iniquity of the fathers into the sinews of their sons after them. The Lord of hosts is your name: most strong, great, and powerful!

Matthew 10:42

And whoever shall give, even to one of the least of these, a cup of cold water to drink, solely in the name of a disciple: Amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward."

Matthew 7:2

For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you.

Mark 4:24

And he said to them: "Consider what you hear. With whatever measure you have measured out, it shall be measured back to you, and more shall be added to you.

Luke 6:30

But distribute to all who ask of you. And do not ask again of him who takes away what is yours.

Deuteronomy 15:10

Instead, you shall give to him. Neither shall you do anything craftily while assisting him in his needs, so that the Lord your God may bless you, at all times and in all things to which you will put your hand.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy toward him who has not shown mercy. But mercy exalts itself above judgment.

Judges 1:7

And Adonibezek said: "Seventy kings, with the ends of their hands and feet amputated, have been gathering the remnants of food under my table. Just as I have done, so has God repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.