Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
36Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee [as] a stranger and a sojourner.
Psalms 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He shall maintain his cause in judgment,
Proverbs 19:17He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.
Matthew 5:44But I say to 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,
Luke 1:32This man will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
John 13:35By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:28-37
Exhortations to Justice and Mercy. 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For… Read the whole commentary →