Luke 6:38

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap, for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Job 42:11

Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.

Psalm 79:12

Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!

Exodus 21:24

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

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and toil adds nothing to it.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.

Proverbs 22:9

Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Matthew 10:42

and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

Mark 4:24

And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and it will be added to you.

Luke 6:30

Give to everyone who asks of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back again.

Deuteronomy 15:10

Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.