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 be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
• Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• Ps 41:1Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
• Matt 6:12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
• Isa 58:7–10Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
• 2 Cor 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
• 2 Cor 9:6–14But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• Luke 18:22Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Prov 21:26He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
• Matt 5:42–48Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
• Matt 18:27–30Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
• Prov 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
• Ezek 11:1–2Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
• Eccl 8:16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
• Prov 11:24–25There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
• Luke 6:38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
• Ps 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
• Luke 11:41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
• Prov 22:9He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
• Luke 12:33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
• Neh 5:1–19And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
• Exod 22:26–27If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Matt 18:35So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
• Eph 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Prov 3:27–28Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

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