^2 (A)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and ^(B)with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

¹³ For ^(A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

^38 (A)give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put ^(B)into your lap. For ^(C)with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

²⁴ And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: ^(A)with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

The Day of the Lord Is Near

The Cheerful Giver

⁶ The point is this: ^(A)whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully^[a] will also reap bountifully.

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off ^(A)used to pick up scraps under my table. ^(B)As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

⁶ since indeed God considers it ^(A)just ^(B)to repay with affliction those who afflict you, ⁷ and to grant ^(C)relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when ^(D)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven ^(E)with his mighty angels