Luke 3:13
And he said to them, Collect not one thing more than from what has been appointed for you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
In Context
12And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?
Cross References
Psalms 18:23I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Ezekiel 18:21But if a wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Micah 6:8He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Luke 19:8And having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, Behold, half of the things possessed by me, Lord, I give to the poor. And if I defrauded any man of anything, I repay fourfold.
Ephesians 4:28Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.
Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15
Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →