Luke 6:32

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:46-47 : 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
  • 1 Pet 2:19-20 : 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

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    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 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

    35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

    36 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

    37 Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

    38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

  • Matt 5:42-47
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    42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

    43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

    44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

    45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

    46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

    47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

  • Luke 6:26-31
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    26 Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

    27 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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

    29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

    30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

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    14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

    15 But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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    8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

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    11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

    12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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    34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

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    12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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    14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

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    11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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    14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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    20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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    4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

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    6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

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