Love Your Enemies
Luke 6:32
In 9 translations
- BSB
- If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
- KJV
- For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
- WEB
- “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
- ASV
- And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.
- LSV
- and—if you love those loving you, what grace is it to you? For also the sinful love those loving them;
- YLT
- and — if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;
- DBY
- And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.
- DRC
- And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also love those that love them.
- GNV
- For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners loue those that loue them.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσιν.
- RP2018
- Καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; Καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσιν.
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστί; Καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσι.
- SCR1894
- και ει αγαπατε τους αγαπωντας υμας ποια υμιν χαρις εστιν και γαρ οι αμαρτωλοι τους αγαπωντας αυτους αγαπωσιν
Who and where
◆ Sermon on the Mount
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Sermon on the mountSermon on the Plain, TheSermonGood for EvilThank; Thanks; ThanksgivingEnemySelfishnessForgivenessSirach, Book ofCommandments
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 5:46–47If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
- 1 Peter 2:19–20For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended. How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good…
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).