Luke 6:36

New Century Version

Show mercy, just as your Father shows mercy.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Give love and mercy the same as your Father gives love and mercy.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Be ye therfore mercifull as youre father is mercifull.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore be merciful, Even as your Father is also merciful.

International Standard Version
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."Matthew 5:48;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Update Bible Version
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Amplified Bible
"Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.

English Standard Version
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

World English Bible
Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Weymouth's New Testament
Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor be ye merciful, as youre fadir is merciful.

English Revised Version
Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Berean Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Contemporary English Version
Have pity on others, just as your Father has pity on you.

American Standard Version
Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Bible in Basic English
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

Complete Jewish Bible
Show compassion, just as your Father shows compassion.

Darby Translation
Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

Etheridge Translation
Be you therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

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

King James Version (1611)
Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.

New Living Translation
You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.

New Life Bible
"You must have loving-kindness just as your Father has loving-kindness.

New Revised Standard
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.

George Lamsa Translation
Be therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Become ye compassionate, according as, your Father, is, compassionate;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Revised Standard Version
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be ye therfore mercifull, as your father also is mercifull.

Good News Translation
Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.

Christian Standard Bible®
Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

King James Version
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Lexham English Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!

Literal Translation
Therefore, be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

Young's Literal Translation
be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be ye therfore mercifull, as youre father also is mercifull.

Mace New Testament (1729)
be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

New English Translation
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

New King James Version
Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Dole out mercy, just as the Boss is merciful to you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

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
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Matthew 5:48, Ephesians 4:31, Ephesians 5:1, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:16 - the Lord 2 Samuel 9:3 - the kindness of God Psalms 26:3 - For Psalms 112:4 - he is gracious Micah 6:8 - love Malachi 1:6 - if then Matthew 18:33 - even Mark 12:5 - and him 1 Corinthians 13:4 - is kind Hebrews 13:16 - to do James 5:11 - the Lord is 1 John 3:3 - even

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be ye therefore merciful,.... Tenderhearted, kind, beneficent to all men, friends and foes:

as your Father also is merciful; that is your Father which is in heaven; who is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works: nothing is more common in Zohar y, and the Talmud z than to express the Divine Being by no other name, than "the Merciful"; אמר

רחמנא, "the Merciful said" so, and so; that is, God: and so the Arabians generally begin their books and chapters with these words, "in the name of God, exceeding merciful", or "the merciful commiserator": a saying much like to this in the text, is the Targum of Jonathan, on

Leviticus 22:28.

"O my people, the children of "Israel, as your father",

רחמן, "is merciful" in heaven, so be ye merciful on earth.''

y Zohar in Lev. fol. 2. 2. & 9. 4. & 20. 1. & 22. 1. z T. Bab. Moed Katon, fol. 15. 2.

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 36. Be ye therefore merciful — Or, compassionate; οικτιρμινες, from οικτος, commiseration, which etymologists derive from εικω to give place, yield, because we readily concede those things which are necessary to them whom we commiserate. As God is ever disposed to give all necessary help and support to those who are miserable, so his followers, being influenced by the same spirit, are easy to be entreated, and are at all times ready to contribute to the uttermost of their power to relieve or remove the miseries of the distressed. A merciful or compassionate man easily forgets injuries; pardons them without being solicited; and does not permit repeated returns of ingratitude to deter him from doing good, even to the unthankful and the unholy. Matthew 5:7; Matthew 5:7.