Luke 11:41
Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
In Context
40Fools! Did not he who made what is outside, indeed also make what is inside?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:8Instead, you shall open your hand to the poor, and you shall lend to him whatever you perceive him to need.
Psalms 41:1Unto the end. The understanding of the sons of Korah.
Proverbs 14:31Whoever slanders the indigent argues against his Maker. But he who has compassion on the poor honors his Maker.
Ecclesiastes 11:1Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again.
Daniel 4:27And the king spoke out loud, saying, “Isn’t this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?”
Matthew 6:1“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →