Luke 6:35

WEB

³⁵But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

KJV

³⁵ But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

BSB

³⁵But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

FBV

³⁵No: love your enemies, do good to them, and lend without expecting to be repaid anything. Then you will receive a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, for he is kind to ungrateful and wicked people.

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Extra References

Matthew 5:44-45

⁴⁴^[+] But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, ⁴⁵that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

John 13:35

³⁵By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Proverbs 19:17

¹⁷He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward him.

Romans 5:8-10

⁸But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. ¹⁰For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Psalms 145:9

⁹The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Leviticus 25:35-37

³⁵“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. ³⁶Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you. ³⁷You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

2 Corinthians 8:9

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Proverbs 22:9

⁹He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

Psalms 112:5

⁵It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

1 John 4:7-11

⁷Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. ⁹By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born^[+] Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice^[+] for our sins. ¹¹Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.