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Luke 6:36

Therefore be ye merciful, as your Father is indeed merciful.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

35Moreover love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest: because He is good to the ungrateful and wicked.

37And criticise not, and you can not be criticised. Condemn not, and you can not be condemned.

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Cross References

Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil.

1 Peter 1:15but according to the Holy One who has called you. Be ye also holy in all your deportment;

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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