Luke 6:32

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“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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  • Luke 6:33-38
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    33And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

    34And 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.

    35But 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.

    36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

    37Do 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.

    38Give, 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 5:42-47
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    42Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.

    43Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’

    44But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,

    45so 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.

    46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?

    47And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

  • Luke 6:26-31
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    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,

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

    29To 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.

    30Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

    31Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.

  • Matt 6:14-15
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    14“For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

    15But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

  • Jas 2:8
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    8But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

  • Matt 7:11-12
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    11If 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!

    12In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

  • John 13:34-35
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    34“I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • John 15:12
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    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • Rom 12:14
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    14Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

  • Matt 6:1-2
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    1Pure-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.

    2Thus 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!

  • Rom 13:8
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    8Exhortation 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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    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • Luke 6:22-23
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    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!

    23Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.

  • Gal 5:14
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    14For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20If 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.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

  • Matt 22:39
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    39The second is like it:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

  • Eph 4:32
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    32Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

  • Matt 18:35
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    35So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”

  • Luke 17:9
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    9He won’t thank the slave because he did what he was told, will he?

  • Luke 10:37
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    37The expert in religious law said,“The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him,“Go and do the same.”

  • Matt 18:33
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    33Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’

  • Luke 7:42
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    42When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

  • John 5:42
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    42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • Matt 6:8
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    8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

  • Matt 6:4
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    4so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

  • Luke 14:12
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    12He 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.

  • 3 John 1:6
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    6They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

  • Eph 6:7
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    7Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,