Luke 6:38

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, having been pressed down and having been shaken, overflowing, will be put into your kheyk (lap). For by what measure you measure it will be measured in return to you. + 6:38 Ps 79:12; Isa 65:6,7

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

In Context

37Judge not, lest you be judged. And do not condemn, and by no means may you be condemned. If you pardon with mechila (forgiveness), you will be pardoned with selicha (forgiveness).

39Now he told also a mashal to them. Surely an ivver is not able to guide an ivver, is he? Will not both fall into a pit?

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Cross References

Exodus 21:24Ayin for ayin, shen for shen, yad for yad, regel for regel,

Deuteronomy 19:16If an ed chamas (malicious, false witness) rise up against any ish to testify against him that which is wrong;

2 Samuel 19:36I am this day fourscore shanah old; and can I discern between tov and rah? Can thy eved taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of sharim (singing men) and sharot (singing women)? Why then should thy eved be yet a massa (burden) unto adoni HaMelech?

Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on HaEtz that he had prepared for Mordechai. Then was the wrath of HaMelech pacified. + 7:10 Ps 24:10; Isa 53:11

Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their chefetz (desire), 1 or have caused the eyes of the almanah to grow weary, 1

Psalms 18:25Therefore hath Hashem recompensed me according to my tzedek, 1 according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes. 1

Matthew Henry on Luke 6:38-49

Exhortations to Justice and Sincerity. 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above… Read the whole commentary →

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