Luke 6:38

New American Bible - revised edition

Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:10

When you give, give generously and not with a stingy heart; for that, the Lord, your God, will bless you in all your works and undertakings.

Mark 4:24

He also told them, “Take care what you hear. The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you.

Matthew 7:2

For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.

Proverbs 22:9

The generous will be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever cares for the poor lends to the Lord, who will pay back the sum in full.

Proverbs 10:22

It is the Lord’s blessing that brings wealth, and no effort can substitute for it.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

Luke 6:30

Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.

James 2:13

For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. Faith and Works.

Job 42:11

Then all his brothers and sisters came to him, and all his former acquaintances, and they dined with him in his house. They consoled and comforted him for all the evil the Lord had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.

Psalm 79:12

Turn back sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the insult with which they insulted you, Lord.

Judges 1:7

“Seventy kings,” said Adonibezek, “used to pick up scraps under my table with their thumbs and big toes cut off. As I have done, so has God repaid me.” He was brought to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Jeremiah 32:18

You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; but you repay the ancestors’ guilt upon their children who follow them. Great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of hosts,

Exodus 21:24

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

2 Samuel 19:36

I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks, or still hear the voices of men and women singers? Why should your servant be any further burden to my lord the king?