Luke 6:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Good measure, pressed down. — The imagery clearly points to a measure of grain, so pressed and shaken that it could hold no more.

Into your bosom. — The large fold of an Eastern dress over the chest, often used as a pocket.

With the same measure that ye mete. — See Notes on Matthew 7:2; Mark 4:24, for the varied applications of the proverb.

Luke 6:38

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 measured to you again.