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 there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
• Acts 20:35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• Ps 41:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
• Matt 6:12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
• Isa 58:7–10Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
• 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, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
• 2 Cor 9:6–14Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
• Luke 18:22On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
• Prov 21:26All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.
• Matt 5:42–48Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
• Matt 18:27–30His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.
• Prov 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
• Ezek 11:1–2Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
• Eccl 8:16When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
• Prov 11:24–25One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
• Luke 6:38Give, 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.”
• Ps 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
• Luke 11:41But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.
• Prov 22:9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
• Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
• Neh 5:1–19About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
• Exod 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
• Matt 18:35That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
• Eph 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
• Prov 3:27–28Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

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