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Luke 6:38

38“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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Summary

Jesus speaks in Luke 6:38: Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.

Interpretation

In Luke 6:38, Jesus speaks in Luke 6:38: Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you Luke records the moment so that readers may know both the event and its claim on faith. Listen to the text: ““Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.””

In Luke 6:38, Luke shows Jesus with clarity and compassion. The details invite deeper confidence in Christ and a life shaped by jesus’ ministry. Even a brief saying in Luke carries weight. Short verses often crystallize mercy, identity, or call so we cannot skim past them. Let this concentrated word search you; Scripture’s brevity can be God’s kindness to a distracted heart.

Bring your needs and questions to Him. He still teaches, heals, forgives, and calls ordinary people into glad discipleship.

Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus chooses the Twelve and teaches the Sermon on the Plain—blessings, woes, enemy-love, and building on the rock of obedient hearing. This passage belongs in that movement: Luke 6:38 is not an isolated moral tale but a step in Luke’s portrait of Jesus. Luke highlights God’s mercy for the poor, the outsider, and the sinner—salvation that seeks and saves the lost.

A pastoral word for today: Memorize or linger over this verse. Let one clear word from Jesus reorder a crowded mind, and obey the next small step it implies.

As you reflect on Luke 6:38, ask what it reveals about the heart of God. Luke’s portrait is consistent: Jesus, full of the Spirit, seeks the lost, lifts the lowly, and keeps company with sinners who repent. Scripture like this is meant to be lived—heard in community, remembered in trial, and obeyed in love.

Context

Sabbath debates, appointing the Twelve, and Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain. This unit (Luke 6:38) advances that narrative.

Chapter 6 in Luke: Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus chooses the Twelve and teaches the Sermon on the Plain—blessings, woes, enemy-love, and building on the rock of obedient hearing.

In these chapters Luke shows Jesus teaching, healing, and gathering a people who hear God’s word.

Audience

General Christian readers of Luke

Themes

Keywords

Jesus