Luke 6:32

32 If ye love the which love you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners love their lovers.

Luke 6:32 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 6:32

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye?
&c.] Or, "what grace have ye?" this is no fruit, nor evidence of grace, nor any exercise of the true grace of love; nor is it any favour conferred upon the object loved, which deserves the respect shown, nor can any reward be expected for such treatment: and thus it is expressed in Matthew, "what reward have ye?" and the Arabic version renders it so here:

for sinners also love those who love them:
men that are destitute of the grace of God, profligate sinners, even the worst of them, such as publicans, do this; (See Gill on Matthew 5:46).

Luke 6:32 In-Context

30 Geve to every man that axeth of the. And of him that taketh awaye thy goodes axe them not agayne.

31 And as ye wolde that men shuld doo to you: so do ye to them lyke wyse.

32 If ye love the which love you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners love their lovers.

33 And yf ye do for them which do for you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners do even the same.

34 If ye lende to them of whome ye hoope to receave: what thanke shall ye have: for the very synners lende to synners to receave as moch agayne.