Luke 6:32

World English Bible (2000)

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:46-47 : 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
  • 1 Pet 2:19-20 : 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

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    33If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

    34If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

    35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

    36Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

    37Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

    38"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

  • Matt 5:42-47
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    42Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

    43"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

    44But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

    45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

    46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

    47If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

  • Luke 6:26-31
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    26Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

    27"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

    28bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

    29To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

    30Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

    31"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

  • Matt 6:14-15
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    14"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

    15But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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    8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

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    11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

    12Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

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    12"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • Rom 12:14
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    14Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

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    11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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    22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

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    14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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    20If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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    39A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

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    32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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    35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

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    33Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

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    42But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

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    8Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

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    4so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

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    12He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

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    6They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

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