Luke 6:38

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure #– #pressed down, shaken together, and running over #– #will be poured into your lap.   For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.’

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:10

Give to him, and don’t have a stingy heart  when you give, and because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you do.

Mark 4:24

And he said to them, ‘Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure   you use,   it will be measured to you #– #and more will be added   to you.

Matthew 7:2

For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.

Proverbs 22:9

A generous person  will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

Proverbs 19:17

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the  Lord, and he will give a reward to the lender.  ,

Proverbs 10:22

The Lord’s blessing enriches, and he adds no painful effort to it.  ,

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives   even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple,   , truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.’

Luke 6:30

Give to everyone who asks you, and from someone who takes your things, don’t ask for them back.

James 2:13

For judgement is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy.  Mercy triumphs over judgement.

Job 42:11

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances  came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathised with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver  , and a gold earring.

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king,  he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head  and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps  under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.’ They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Esther 7:10

They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.  Then the king’s anger subsided.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them,  great and mighty God  whose name is the Lord of Armies,

Exodus 21:24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth,  hand for hand, foot for foot,

2 Samuel 19:36

Since your servant is only going with the king a little way across the Jordan, why should the king repay me with such a reward?