Luke 6:32-38

32 "¹If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

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

34 "²If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount.

35 "But ³love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be ⁴sons of ⁵the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

36 "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

37 "⁶Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; ⁷pardon, and you will be pardoned.

38 "Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour ⁸into your lap a ⁹good measure -pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 5:46
• 2. Matthew 5:42
• 3. Luke 6:27
• 4. Matthew 5:9
• 5. Luke 1:32
• 6. Luke 6:37-42: {Matthew 7:1-5}
• 7. Matthew 6:14; Luke 23:16; Acts 3:13
• 8. Mark 4:24
• 9. Psalms 79:12; Isaiah 65:6, 7; Jeremiah 32:18

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "not despairing at all"
• [b]. Or "Become"
• [c]. Lit "release"
• [d]. Lit "give"