Luke 6:32

New Century Version

If you love only the people who love you, what praise should you get? Even sinners love the people who love them.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"If you love only those who love you, should you get any special praise for doing that? No, even sinners love those who love them!

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If ye love the which love you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners love their lovers.

Hebrew Names Version
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

International Standard Version
"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.Matthew 5:46;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Update Bible Version
And if you love those that love you, what thanks do you have? for even sinners love those that love them.

Webster's Bible Translation
For if ye love them who love you, what thanks have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Amplified Bible
"If you [only] love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

English Standard Version
"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

World English Bible
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? For sinners also love those that love them.

Weymouth's New Testament
"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if ye louen hem that louen you, what thanke is to you? for synful men louen men that louen hem.

English Revised Version
And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.

Berean Standard Bible
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Contemporary English Version
If you love only someone who loves you, will God praise you for that? Even sinners love people who love them.

American Standard Version
And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.

Bible in Basic English
If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

Complete Jewish Bible
What credit is it to you if you love only those who love you? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

Darby Translation
And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.

Etheridge Translation
For if you love them who love you, what is your grace ? for sinners also love those who love them.

Murdock Translation
For, if ye love them that love you, what goodness is it in you? For even sinners love those that love them.

King James Version (1611)
For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke haue ye? for sinners also loue those that loue them.

New Living Translation
"If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them!

New Life Bible
"If you love those who love you, what pay can you expect from that? Sinners also love those who love them.

New Revised Standard
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners loue those that loue them.

George Lamsa Translation
For if you love those who love you, what is your favor? for even sinners love those who love them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if ye love them that love you, what sort of thanks are there for you? for, even sinners, love, such as love them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also love those that love them.

Revised Standard Version
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For yf ye loue them which loue you, what thanke haue ye? For sinners also loue their louers.

Good News Translation
"If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them!

Christian Standard Bible®
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

King James Version
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Lexham English Bible
"And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them!

Literal Translation
And if you love those who love you, what thanks is there to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Young's Literal Translation
and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And yf ye loue them that loue you, what thake haue ye therfore? For synners also loue their louers.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love.

New English Translation
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

New King James Version
"But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Simplified Cowboy Version
If you're only cordial to nice people, you ain't going to get a cookie for good behavior. Even sinners love folks who love them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Legacy Standard Bible
And if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Contextual Overview

²⁷ "But I say to you who are listening, love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you, ²⁸ bless those who curse you, pray for those who are cruel to you. ²⁹ If anyone slaps you on one cheek, offer him the other cheek, too. If someone takes your coat, do not stop him from taking your shirt. ³⁰ Give to everyone who asks you, and when someone takes something that is yours, don't ask for it back. ³¹ Do to others what you would want them to do to you. ³² If you love only the people who love you, what praise should you get? Even sinners love the people who love them. ³³ If you do good only to those who do good to you, what praise should you get? Even sinners do that! ³⁴ If you lend things to people, always hoping to get something back, what praise should you get? Even sinners lend to other sinners so that they can get back the same amount! ³⁵ But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. Then you will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, because he is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin. ³⁶ Show mercy, just as your Father shows mercy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if: Matthew 5:46, Matthew 5:47

what: 1 Peter 2:19, 1 Peter 2:20

Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:26 - righteous Luke 10:37 - Go Luke 14:12 - and a John 15:19 - were of the world

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye?.... Or, "what grace have ye?" this is no fruit, nor evidence of grace, nor any exercise of the true grace of love; nor is it any favour conferred upon the object loved, which deserves the respect shown, nor can any reward be expected for such treatment: and thus it is expressed in Matthew, "what reward have ye?" and the Arabic version renders it so here:

for sinners also love those who love them: men that are destitute of the grace of God, profligate sinners, even the worst of them, such as publicans, do this; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7.

Luke 6:21

That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction.

Luke 6:24-26

These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees.

Who are rich - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that they would not seek or receive consolation from the gospel. They were proud, and would not seek it; satisfied, and did not desire it; filled with cares, and had no time or disposition to attend to it. All the consolation which they had reason to expect they had received. Alas! how poor and worthless is such consolation, compared with that which the gospel would give!

Woe unto you that are full! - Not hungry. Satisfied with their wealth, and not feeling their need of anything better than earthly wealth can give. Many, alas! are thus “full.” They profess to be satisfied. They desire nothing but wealth, and a sufficiency to satisfy the wants of the body. They have no anxiety for the riches that shall endure forever.

Ye shall hunger - Your property shall be taken away, or you shall see that it is of little value; and then you shall see the need of something better. You shall feel your want and wretchedness, and shall “hunger” for something to satisfy the desires of a dying, sinful soul.

That laugh now - Are happy, or thoughtless, or joyful, or filled with levity.

Shall mourn and weep - The time is coming when you shall sorrow deeply. In sickness, in calamity, in the prospect of death, in the fear of eternity, your laughter shall be turned into sorrow. “There is” a place where you cannot laugh, and there you will see the folly of having passed the “proper time” of preparing for such scenes in levity and folly. Alas! how many thus spend their youth! and how many weep when it is too late! God gives them over, and “laughs” at their “calamity,” and mocks when their fear comes, Proverbs 1:26. To be happy in “such scenes,” it is necessary to be sober, humble, pious in early life. “Then” we need not weep in the day of calamity; then there will be no terror in death; then there will be nothing to fear in the grave.

Luke 6:26

When all men shall speak well of you - When they shall praise or applaud you. The people of the world will not praise or applaud “my” doctrine; they are “opposed” to it, and therefore, if they speak well of “you” and of “your teachings,” it is proof that you do not teach the true doctrine. If you do “not” do this, then there will be woe upon you. If men teach false doctrines for true; if they declare that God has spoken that which he has not spoken, and if they oppose what he “has” delivered, then heavy punishments will await them.

For so did their fathers - The fathers or ancestors of this people; the ancient Jews.

To the false prophets - Men who pretended to be of God - who delivered their “own” doctrines as the truth of God, and who accommodated themselves to the desires of the people. Of this number were the prophets of Baal, the false prophets who appeared in the time of Jeremiah, etc.

Luke 6:27, Luke 6:28

See Matthew 5:44-45.

Luke 6:29

See Matthew 5:39-40.

Luke 6:30

See Matthew 5:42.

Luke 6:31

See Matthew 7:12.

Luke 6:32-36

See Matthew 5:46-48.

Luke 6:37-42

See Matthew 7:1-9.

Luke 6:38

Good measure - They shall give you good measure, or “full” measure.

Pressed down - As figs or grapes might be, and thus many more might be put into the measure.

Shaken together - To make it more compact, and thus to give more.

Running over - So full that the measure would overflow.

Shall men give - This is said to be the reward of “giving” to the poor and needy; and the meaning is that the man who is liberal will find others liberal to him in dealing with them, and when he is also in circumstances of want. A man who is himself kind to the poor - who has that “character” established - will find many who are ready to help “him” abundantly when he is in want. He that is parsimonious, close, niggardly, will find few or none who will aid him.

Into your bosom - That is, to you. The word “bosom” here has reference to a custom among Oriental nations of making the bosom or front part of their garments large, so that articles could be carried in them, answering the purpose of our pockets. Compare Exodus 4:6-7; Proverbs 6:27; Ruth 3:15.

Luke 6:39

A parable - A proverb or similitude.

Can the blind lead the blind? - See the notes at Matthew 15:14.

Luke 6:40

The disciple is not ... - The learner is not above his teacher, does not know more, and must expect to fare no better. This seems to have been spoken to show them that they were not to expect that their disciples would go “beyond them” in attainments; that if they were blind, their followers would be also; and that therefore it was important for them to understand fully the doctrines of the gospel, and not to be blind leaders of the blind.

Every one that is perfect - The word rendered “is perfect” means sometimes to repair or mend, and is thus applied to mending nets, Matthew 4:21; Mark 1:19. Hence, it means to repair or amend in a moral sense, or to make whole or complete. Here it means, evidently, “thoroughly instructed” or “informed.” The Christian should be like his Master - holy, harmless, and undefiled, and separate from sinners. He should copy his example, and grow into the likeness of his Redeemer. Nor can any other be a Christian.

Luke 6:41, Luke 6:42

See the notes at Matthew 7:3-5.

Luke 6:43, Luke 6:44

See the notes at Matthew 7:16-18.

Luke 6:45

This verse is not found in the sermon on the mount as recorded by Matthew, but is recorded by him in Matthew 12:35. See the notes at that passage.

Luke 6:46-49

See the notes at Matthew 7:21-27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. For sinners also love those that love them. — I believe the word αμαρτωλοι is used by St. Luke in the same sense in which τελωναι, tax-gatherers, is used by St. Matthew, Matthew 5:46-47, and signifies heathens; not only men who have no religion, but men who acknowledge none. The religion of Christ not only corrects the errors and reforms the disorders of the fallen nature of man, but raises it even above itself: it brings it near to God; and, by universal love, leads it to frame its conduct according to that of the Sovereign Being. "A man should tremble who finds nothing in his life besides the external part of religion, but what may be found in the life of a Turk or a heathen." The Gospel of the grace of God purifies and renews the heart, causing it to resemble that Christ through whom the grace came. Luke 7:37.