Luke 3:13
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
In Context
12Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, “Rabbi, what must we do?”
Cross References
Psalms 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Ezekiel 18:21“But if the wicked 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 you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Luke 19:8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
Ephesians 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something 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 →