Luke Chapter 11 verse 41 Holy Bible
But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.
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But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
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But rather give alms of what ye have, and behold, all things are clean to you.
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But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
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But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
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But what ye have give ye `as' alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.
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Luke 11 : 41 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 41. - But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. The translation here should run, but rather give the things that are in them as alms, etc. The thought of the contents of these cups and dishes - a thought which came out, as we have seen, so prominently in St. Matthew - here is evidently in the Lord's mind. "Ah!" he seems to say, "what you Pharisees and your schools of formalism indeed want is the knowledge of that great law of love" (the law Jesus was ever teaching in such parables, for instance, as that of the good Samaritan). "I will tell you how really to purify, in the eyes of God, these cups and dishes of yours. Share their contents with your poorer neighbors." "Let them do one single loving, unselfish act, not for the sake of the action itself, not for any merit inherent in it; but out of pure good will towards others, and their whole inward condition would be different" (Bishop Basil Jones, in the 'Speaker's Commentary').
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(41) But rather give alms of such things as ye have.--This, too, is peculiar to St. Luke. In the underlying principle of its teaching it sweeps away the whole fabric of the law of ceremonial purity, as the words of St. Matthew 15:10-20 had, on different grounds, done before. The distinction between the two phases of the truth is that here greater stress is laid on the active purifying power of the love of which alms, if not given for the sake of man's praise, is the natural expression. That which defiles is selfishness; that which purifies is the unselfishness of love.
