Luke 6:32
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
KJV
καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσιν.
Greek NT
Et si diligitis eos qui vos diligunt, quæ vobis est gratia ? nam et peccatores diligentes se diligunt.
Vulgate
And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.
ASV
And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also love those that love them.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
ποῖος
poios
interrogative_pronoun · 33×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἀγαπάω
agapao
verb · 143×
ἁμαρτωλός
amartolos
adjective · 47×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§96And first of all let us imitate the breadth of His love. For the Church, the Bride of Christ, is one; and yet so vast is the love of the divine Spouse that it embraces in His Bride the whole human race without exception. Our Savior shed His Blood precisely in order that He might reconcile men to God through the Cross, and might constrain them to unite in one body, however widel…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 2:19 — For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
- 1Pet 2:19 — For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
- 1Pet 2:20 — For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
- John 15:19 — If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
- Luke 10:37 — And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
- Luke 14:12 — Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and
- Matt 5:46 — For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
- Matt 5:46 — For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
- Matt 5:47 — And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
- Prov 12:26 — The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.