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Luke 6:30

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

KJV

παντὶ αἰτοῦντί σε δίδου, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴροντος τὰ σὰ μὴ ἀπαίτει.

Greek NT

Omni autem petenti te, tribue : et qui aufert quæ tua sunt, ne repetas.

Vulgate

Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

ASV

Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἰτέω
aiteo
verb · 70×
αἴρω
airo
verb · 101×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σός
sos
possessive_pronoun · 27×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀπαιτέω
apaiteo
verb · 2×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: παντὶ | WH/NIV: παντὶ | Treg/RP: + δὲ τῷ
  • παντὶSBLGNT
  • παντὶWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + δὲ τῷTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Wherefore neither with this was He satisfied, but unfolds also the very nature of the war, signifying it to be far more grievous even than a civil war; and He says, I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. For not friends only, says He, nor fellow citizens, but even kinsme…
§96And first of all let us imitate the breadth of His love. For the Church, the Bride of Christ, is one; and yet so vast is the love of the divine Spouse that it embraces in His Bride the whole human race without exception. Our Savior shed His Blood precisely in order that He might reconcile men to God through the Cross, and might constrain them to unite in one body, however widel…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 8:9 — For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
  • 2Cor 9:6 — But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
  • Acts 20:35 — I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  • Deut 15:7 — If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor bro
  • Eccl 11:2 — Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
  • Isa 58:7 — Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own fl
  • Luke 6:38 — Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measu
  • Luke 18:22 — Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
  • Matt 5:42 — Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
  • Matt 5:42 — Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
  • Matt 6:12 — And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
  • Matt 18:27 — Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
  • Prov 19:17 — He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
  • Prov 21:26 — He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
  • Prov 21:26 — He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
  • Ps 37:21 — The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
  • Ps 41:1 — Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.