Luke 6:37-39
1599 Geneva Bible
37 ¶ (A)[a]Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: [b]forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you: (B)a good measure, [c]pressed down, shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom: for with what measure ye mete, with the same shall men mete to you again.
39 [d]And he spake a parable unto them, (C)Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
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- Luke 6:37 Brotherly reprehension must not proceed of curiosity, nor churlishness, nor malice, but they must be just, moderate, and loving.
- Luke 6:37 He speaketh not here of civil judgments, and therefore by the word, forgive, is meant that good nature, which the Christians use in suffering and pardoning wrongs.
- Luke 6:38 These are borrowed kinds of speeches taken from them which use to measure dry things, as corn and such like, who use a frank kind of dealing therein, and thrust it down and shake it together, and press it and heap it.
- Luke 6:39 Unskillful reprehenders hurt both themselves and others: for such as the master is, such is the scholar.
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