Luke 12:17 Cross References - Williams

¹⁷ So he began to argue with himself, 'What am I to do, because I have nowhere to store my crops?'

⁴² If anyone, whoever he may be, keeps on begging you, give to him; if anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn him away.

¹¹ He answered them, "The man who has two shirts must share with him who has none, and the man who has food must do the same."

²⁵ Just then an expert in the law got up to test Him by asking, "Teacher, what shall I do to get possession of eternal life?"

⁴¹ But dedicate once for all your inner self, and at once you will have everything clean.

²² Then He said to His disciples: "Stop worrying, then, about life, as to what you will have to eat, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear.

²⁹ So you must stop seeking what to eat and what to drink, and must stop being in suspense about these things.

³³ Sell your property and give to charity. Provide for yourselves purses that will never wear out, riches that never fail in heaven, where a thief cannot come near nor a moth destroy,

¹³ But when you give a reception, make it your habit to invite people that are poor, maimed, crippled, or blind. ¹⁴ Then you will be happy, because they cannot repay you; you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."

³ Then the manager said to himself, What shall I do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

⁹ So I tell you, make friends by the right use of your money, which so easily tends to wrongdoing, so that when it fails, your friends may welcome you to the eternal dwellings.

²² When Jesus heard this, He said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell everything you have, and distribute the money among the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

¹⁷ So he said to him, 'Well done, my good slave! Because you have proven dependable in a very small business, be governor of ten cities!'

³⁷ When they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

³⁰ After leading them out of the jail, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

¹³ always supplying the needs of God's people, ever practicing hospitality.

⁶ Now this is the way it is: Whoever sows sparingly will reap sparingly too, but whoever sows bountifully will reap bountifully too. ⁷ Each must give what he has purposed in his heart to give, not sorrowfully or under compulsion, for it is the happy giver that God loves. ⁸ And God is able to make your every spiritual blessing overflow for you, so that you will always have in every situation an entire sufficiency and so overflow for every good cause; ⁹ as the Scripture says: "He has generously given to the poor; His deeds of charity go on forever." ¹⁰ He who always supplies the sower with seed and the eater with bread will supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest which your deeds of charity yield. ¹¹ In every way you will grow richer and richer so as to give with perfect liberality, which will through me result in thanksgiving to God for it. ¹² Because the service rendered by this sacred offering is not only fully supplying the needs of God's people, but it is also running over with many thanks to God for it. ¹³ For through the test you get by doing this service you will continue praising God for your fidelity to your confession of the good news of Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions to them and all others; ¹⁴ and so in their prayers for you they will continue longing for you, because of God's surpassing favor shown you. ¹⁵ Thank God for His unspeakable gift!

¹⁷ Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment;

¹⁶ We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.