Luke 6:38
Greek Text— 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.”
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But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
He 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.
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
In 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.’”
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:
Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Adoni-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.
Then 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.
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
Whoever 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.”
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.