Luke 6:30

Jesus calls for open-handed generosity that gives freely without grasping after repayment. Love releases its hold on possessions for the sake of others.

Cross-references · 25

• Deut 15:7–10If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
• Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• Ps 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Matt 6:12Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
• Isa 58:7–10Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• 2 Cor 9:6–14Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Luke 18:22When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
• Prov 21:26There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
• Matt 5:42–48Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
• Matt 18:27–30The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Ezek 11:1–2Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
• Eccl 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
• Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Luke 6:38“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
• Prov 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
• Luke 12:33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
• Neh 5:1–19Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
• Exod 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
• Matt 18:35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
• Eph 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
• Prov 3:27–28Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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