Luke 11:41
But what ye have give ye [as] alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.
Young's Literal Translation
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
40unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:8for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.
Psalms 41:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.
Proverbs 14:31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
Ecclesiastes 11:1Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
Daniel 4:27'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
Matthew 6:1'Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not — reward ye have not from your Father who [is] in the heavens;
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 →