34 And (A)if you (B)lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

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42 (A)Give to the one who begs from you, and (B)do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

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The Parable of the Great Banquet

12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give (A)a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers[a] or your relatives or rich neighbors, (B)lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, (C)invite (D)the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid (E)at (F)the resurrection of the just.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 14:12 Or your brothers and sisters

35 But (A)love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and (B)you will be sons of (C)the Most High, for (D)he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

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but (A)you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your (B)eye look grudgingly[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he (C)cry to the Lord against you, and (D)you be guilty of sin. 10 You shall give to him freely, and (E)your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because (F)for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. 11 For (G)there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, (H)‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:9 Or be evil; also verse 10

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