Luke 6:27-45

Love Your Enemies

27 "But I say to you who hear, ¹Love your enemies, ²do good to those who hate you,

28 ³bless those who curse you, ⁴pray for those who abuse you.

29 ⁵To one who ⁶strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic^[a] either.

30 ⁷Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.

31 And ⁸as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

32 ⁹"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

34 And ¹⁰if you ¹¹lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

35 But ¹²love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and ¹³you will be sons of ¹⁴the Most High, for ¹⁵he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

36 ¹⁶Be merciful, even as ¹⁷your Father is merciful.

Judging Others

37 "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; ¹⁸forgive, and you will be forgiven;

38 ¹⁹give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put ²⁰into your lap. For ²¹with the measure you use it will be measured back to you."

39 He also told them a parable: ²²"Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

40 ²³A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is ²⁴fully trained will be like his teacher.

41 ²⁵Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but ²⁶do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

A Tree and Its Fruit

43 "For ²⁷no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

44 for ²⁸each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

45 ²⁹The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces ³⁰evil, ³¹for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Cross References

• 1. See Matthew 5:44
• 2. Proverbs 25:21, 22; Romans 12:20, 21
• 3. 1 Peter 3:9
• 4. [See ver. 27 above]
• 5. For ver. 29, 30, see Matthew 5:39-42; [Romans 12:17]
• 6. Isaiah 50:6; Lamentations 3:30; Matthew 26:67
• 7. Psalms 37:21; Proverbs 21:26
• 8. Matthew 7:12
• 9. Matthew 5:46
• 10. [Luke 14:12-14; Proverbs 19:17; Matthew 5:42]
• 11. Psalms 37:26
• 12. ver. 27
• 13. Matthew 5:45
• 14. Luke 1:32; See Mark 5:7
• 15. [James 1:5]
• 16. [Matthew 5:7, 48; Ephesians 5:1, 2; James 3:17]
• 17. James 5:11
• 18. [Matthew 6:14; Matthew 18:23-35]
• 19. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
• 20. Psalms 79:12; Isaiah 65:6, 7
• 21. Mark 4:24; [Judges 1:7]
• 22. Matthew 15:14
• 23. See Matthew 10:24
• 24. 2 Corinthians 13:11; Hebrews 13:21; 1 Peter 5:10; [1 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Timothy 3:17]
• 25. [See ver. 37 above]
• 26. [John 8:7-9]
• 27. For ver. 43, 44, see Matthew 7:16, 20
• 28. Matthew 12:33
• 29. Matthew 12:35; Matthew 15:18, 19; [Matthew 13:52; Ephesians 4:29]
• 30. [Matthew 5:37]
• 31. Matthew 12:34

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin