Luke 6:32
“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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- Matt 5:46-47 : 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they? 47 And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?
- 1 Pet 2:19-20 : 19 For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.
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33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to be repaid, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may be repaid in full.
35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.
36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
37 Do Not Judge Others“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38 Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.”
- Matt 5:42-476 verses87%
42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.
43 Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’
44 But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?
47 And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?
- Luke 6:26-316 verses84%
26 “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
29 To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.
31 Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.
- Matt 6:14-152 verses72%
14 “For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.
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8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
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11 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
12 In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
- John 13:34-352 verses71%
34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”
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12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.
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14 Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.
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11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
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1 Pure-hearted Giving“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
2 Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
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8 Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
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17 This I command you– to love one another.
- Luke 6:22-232 verses69%
22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
23 Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.
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14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
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20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
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39 The second is like it:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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32 Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
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35 So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”
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9 He won’t thank the slave because he did what he was told, will he?
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37 The expert in religious law said,“The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him,“Go and do the same.”
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33 Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’
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42 When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
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42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
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8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
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4 so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
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12 He said also to the man who had invited him,“When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.
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6 They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
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7 Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,