Luke 6:32
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New International Version (©1984)
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them!

English Standard Version (©2001)
“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

International Standard Version (©2008)
"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“For if you love those who love you, what goodness do you have? Even sinners love those who love them.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"If you love those who love you, do you deserve any thanks for that? Even sinners love those who love them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For if you love them who love you, what thanks have you? for sinners also love those that love them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Matthew 5:46-48.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

For sinners also love those that love them - I believe the word ἁμαρτωλοι is used by St. Luke in the same sense in which τελωναι, tax-gatherers, is used by St. Matthew, Matthew 5:46, Matthew 5:47, 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. See the note on Luke 7:37.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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; See Gill on Matthew 5:46.


Vincent's Word Studies

What thank (ποία)?

What kind of thanks? Not what is your reward, but what is its quality ? On thanks (χάρις), see on Luke 1:30.


Geneva Study Bible

For if ye love them which love you, {g} what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

(g) What is there in this your work that is to be accounted of? For if you look to have reward by loving, seek those rewards which are indeed rewards: love your enemies, and so will you show to the world that you look for those rewards which come from God.


People's New Testament

6:32 If ye love them which love you, etc. See the note on Mt 5:44.


Wesley's Notes

6:32 It is greatly observable, our Lord has so little regard for one of the highest instances of natural virtue, namely, the returning love for love, that he does not account it even to deserve thanks. For even sinners, saith he, do the same: men who do not regard God at all. Therefore he may do this, who has not taken one step in Christianity.


Scofield Reference Notes

Margin sinners

See Scofield Note: "Rom 3:23"


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:27-36 These are hard lessons to flesh and blood. But if we are thoroughly grounded in the faith of Christ's love, this will make his commands easy to us. Every one that comes to him for washing in his blood, and knows the greatness of the mercy and the love there is in him, can say, in truth and sincerity, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Let us then aim to be merciful, even according to the mercy of our heavenly Father to us.


Matthew 5:46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
Luke 6:33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that.

Behave Credit Fellow Grace Love Sinful Sinners Thank Thanks


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

if. Mt 5:46,47

what. 1Pe 2:19,20

Luke Chapter 6 Verse 32

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