Luke 6:27

Jesus commands his hearers to love their enemies and do good to those who hate them. He calls for a radical, God-imitating love.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Th 5:15Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
• Luke 6:35But 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.
• Prov 25:21–22If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
• Rom 12:17–21Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
• Prov 24:17Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
• Matt 5:43–45You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
• Gal 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
• Mark 4:24He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.
• Exod 23:4–5If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
• Luke 23:34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
• Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
• Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
• Luke 8:18Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
• Acts 7:60Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
• Job 31:29–31If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
• Luke 8:8Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop—a hundredfold.” As Jesus said this, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Ps 7:4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
• Prov 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

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