Luke 6:35

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Summary

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Love

And ye

1 John 4:7

General references

Bible References

Love

But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

And ye

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

General references

So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.