Luke 6:36 KJV — MannaFest

Luke 6:36

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

KJV

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ASV

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

WEB

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

YLT

be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

DBT

Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

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Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.

Author: Luke, beloved physician (Col 4:14), travel-companion of Paul
Date: c. AD 60–62

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Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Ephesians 5:1–2
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
1 Peter 1:15–16
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in ch. vii. , others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply them. Grotius thinks that we need not be critical here in seeking for the coherence: they are golden sentences, like Solomon's proverbs or parables.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Christ justifies his disciples in a work of necessity for themselves on that day, and that was plucking the ears of corn, when they were hungry on that day. This story here has a date, which we had not in the other evangelists; it was on the second sabbath after the first (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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