Luke 6:36

Be you therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

In Context

35But love your adversaries, and do good to them, and lend, and cut not off the hope of any one; and great shall be your reward, and you shall be the children of the Most High; for he is benign to the evil and to the ungrateful.

37JUDGE not, and you shall not be judged; condemn not, and you shall not be condemned; release, and you shall be released;

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Cross References

Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and heat, and anger, and clamour, and scandal be taken from you, with all malice;

1 Peter 1:15But be holy in all your conversations, as he is holy who calleth you;

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 →

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