Luke 6:46

New Century Version

"Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' but you don't do what I say?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Why call ye me Master Master: and do not as I bid you?

Hebrew Names Version
"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

International Standard Version
"Why do you keep calling me 'Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?Malachi 1:6; Matthew 7:21; 25:11; Luke 13:25;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"Now why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

Update Bible Version
And why call me, Lord, Lord, and not do the things which I say?

Webster's Bible Translation
And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Amplified Bible
"Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not practice what I tell you?

English Standard Version
"Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?

World English Bible
Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Weymouth's New Testament
"And why do you all call me `Master, Master' and yet not do what I tell you?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And what clepen ye me, Lord, Lord, and doon not tho thingis that Y seie.

English Revised Version
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Berean Standard Bible
Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' but not do what I say?

Contemporary English Version
Why do you keep on saying that I am your Lord, when you refuse to do what I say?

American Standard Version
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Bible in Basic English
Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Complete Jewish Bible
"Why do you call me, ‘Lord! Lord!' but not do what I say?

Darby Translation
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say?

Etheridge Translation
Why call you me, My Lord, my Lord, and the things which I say do not ?

Murdock Translation
And why call ye me, My Lord, my Lord; while ye do not that which I command you?

King James Version (1611)
And why call ye mee Lord, Lord, and doe not the things which I say?

New Living Translation
"So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!' when you don't do what I say?

New Life Bible
"And why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

New Revised Standard
"Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell you?

Geneva Bible (1587)
But why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I speake?

George Lamsa Translation
Why do you call me, My Lord, my Lord, and do not do what I say?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And why call ye me, Lord! Lord! and not do the things that I say?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I say?

Revised Standard Version
"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Why call ye me Lorde, Lorde, and do not as I byd you?

Good News Translation
"Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' and yet don't do what I tell you?

Christian Standard Bible®
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

King James Version
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Lexham English Bible
"And why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell you?

Literal Translation
And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

Young's Literal Translation
`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But why call ye me LORDE LORDE, & do not that I saye vnto you?

Mace New Testament (1729)
Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not observe what I say?

THE MESSAGE
"Why are you so polite with me, always saying ‘Yes, sir,' and ‘That's right, sir,' but never doing a thing I tell you? These words I speak to you are not mere additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundation words, words to build a life on.

New English Translation
"Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,' and don't do what I tell you?

New King James Version
Matthew 7:21-27">[xr] "But why do you call Me "Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Why do you call me Boss, but don't do what I tell you to do?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

Legacy Standard Bible
"Now why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

Contextual Overview

³⁷ "Don't judge others, and you will not be judged. Don't accuse others of being guilty, and you will not be accused of being guilty. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. ³⁸ Give, and you will receive. You will be given much. Pressed down, shaken together, and running over, it will spill into your lap. The way you give to others is the way God will give to you." ³⁹ Jesus told them this story: "Can a blind person lead another blind person? No! Both of them will fall into a ditch. ⁴⁰ A student is not better than the teacher, but the student who has been fully trained will be like the teacher. ⁴¹ "Why do you notice the little piece of dust in your friend's eye, but you don't notice the big piece of wood in your own eye? ⁴² How can you say to your friend, ‘Friend, let me take that little piece of dust out of your eye' when you cannot see that big piece of wood in your own eye! You hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your friend's eye. ⁴³ "A good tree does not produce bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit. ⁴⁴ Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thornbushes, and they don't get grapes from bushes. ⁴⁵ Good people bring good things out of the good they stored in their hearts. But evil people bring evil things out of the evil they stored in their hearts. People speak the things that are in their hearts. ⁴⁶ "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 13:25-27, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 7:21-23, Matthew 25:11, Matthew 25:24, Matthew 25:44, John 13:13-17, Galatians 6:7

Reciprocal: Matthew 11:29 - and learn Matthew 22:24 - Master Mark 14:45 - Master Luke 5:5 - nevertheless Luke 6:49 - that heareth Luke 18:18 - Good Luke 19:20 - Lord John 2:5 - Whatsoever John 12:26 - serve 2 Corinthians 9:13 - professed Philippians 4:9 - do Colossians 3:22 - obey James 1:22 - be 1 John 2:3 - if we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And why call ye me Lord, Lord,.... Or, "my Lord, my Lord", as the Syriac version renders it; acknowledging, in words, his government over them; claiming an interest in him, and making use of his name and authority:

and do not the things which I say; or "command"; and therefore such words in their mouths would be of no use to them, since they neither did his Father's will, which he taught them, nor observed his commands and ordinances which he enjoined them; and therefore should not enter into the kingdom of heaven, nor be owned by him another day, but should be bid to depart from him; :-.

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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 46. Lord, Lord — God judges of the heart, not by words, but by works. A good servant never disputes, speaks little, and always follows his work. Such a servant a real Christian is: such is a faithful minister, always intent either on the work of his own salvation, or that of his neighbour; speaking more to God than to men; and to these as in the presence of God. The tongue is fitly compared by one to a pump, which empties the heart, but neither fills nor cleanses it. The love of God is a hidden spring, which supplies the heart continually, and never permits it to be dry or unfruitful. Quesnel.