'And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;Luke 6:30 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAsk them not again - Or, Do not beg them off. This probably refers to the way in which the tax-gatherers and Roman soldiers used to spoil the people. "When such harpies as these come upon your goods, suffer the injury quietly, leaving yourselves in the hand of God, rather than attempt even to beg off what belongs to you, lest on their part they be provoked to seize or spoil more, and lest you be irritated to sue them at law, which is totally opposite to the spirit and letter of the Gospel; or to speak bad words, or indulge wrong tempers, which would wound the spirit of love and mercy." Of such as these, and of all merciless creditors, who even sell the tools and bed of a poor man, it may be very truly said: -
Tristius haud illis monstrum, nec saevior ulla
Pestis et ira deum Stygiis sese extulit undis: -
Diripiunt dapes, contactaque omnia faedant Immundo: -
Virg. Aen. iii. ver. 214
"Monsters more fierce offended heaven ne'er sent
From hell's abyss, for human punishment: -
They snatch the meat, defiling all they find."
Dryden
However, it is probable that what is here spoken relates to requiring a thing speedily that had been lent, while the reason for borrowing it still continues. In Ecclus. 20:15, it is a part of the character of a very bad man, that to-day he lendeth, and tomorrow will he ask it again. From Luke 6:27 to Luke 6:30 our blessed Lord gives us directions how to treat our enemies.
1. Wish them well.
2. Do them good.
3. Speak as well of them as possible.
4. Be an instrument of procuring them good from others; use your influence in their behalf.
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Give.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom...
Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all things are clean to you.
Luke 12:33 Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not...
Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor...
Deuteronomy 15:7-10 If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you...
Psalm 41:1 Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psalm 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
Proverbs 3:27,28 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it...
Proverbs 11:24,25 There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty...
Proverbs 19:17 He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 21:26 He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.
Proverbs 22:9 He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Ezekiel 11:1,2 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the LORD's house, which looks eastward...
Isaiah 58:7-10 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked...
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth...
Matthew 5:42 Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.
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Acts 20:35 I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus...
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor...
2 Corinthians 9:6-14 But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully...
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good...
and.
Exodus 22:26,27 If you at all take your neighbor's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it to him by that the sun goes down...
Nehemiah 5:1-19 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews...
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Matthew 18:27-30,35 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt...
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