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: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Deut 15:10You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
• Mark 4:24He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.
• Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
• Matt 7:2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
• Prov 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Prov 10:22Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
• Luke 6:30Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
• Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
• 2 Cor 8:14–15but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
• Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Job 42:11Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
• Ps 41:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Ps 79:12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
• Phil 4:17–19Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• Isa 65:6–7“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,
• Ps 18:25–26With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
• Deut 19:16–21If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
• Job 31:16–20“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Judg 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
• Esth 9:25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Ezra 7:27–28Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
• Rev 16:5–6I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

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