Luke 6:36

Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

35Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

37"Judge not, and you shall not be judged; condemn not, and you shall not be condemned; pardon, and you shall be pardoned;

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Cross References

Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice.

1 Peter 1:15but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you--you also must be holy in all your habits of life.

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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