Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete with, it shall be measured to you again.

A reed shaken by the wind? But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold they that are splendidly apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings palaces.

And which of you by taking thought, can add the least measure to his age?

It is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

And he said, An hundred measures of oil. He said to him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.

Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? He said, An hundred measures of wheat. He saith, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.