Luke 6:38

Generous giving is met with God's overflowing generosity, pictured as grain heaped up beyond the brim. The measure we use toward others is the measure returned to us.

Cross-references · 26

• 2 Cor 9:6–8Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
• Deut 15:10Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
• Mark 4:24He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.
• Prov 3:9–10Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
• Matt 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
• Prov 22:9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
• Prov 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
• Prov 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
• Luke 6:30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not demand it back.
• Matt 10:42And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
• 2 Cor 8:14–15At the present time, your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. Then there will be equality.
• Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
• Jas 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Job 42:11All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
• Ps 41:1–2For 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.
• Ps 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
• Phil 4:17–19Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
• Isa 65:6–7Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
• Ps 18:25–26To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
• Deut 19:16–21If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
• Job 31:16–20If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
• Judg 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
• Esth 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Ezra 7:27–28Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
• Rev 16:5–6And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

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