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For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/luke/6-35.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/luke/6-35.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/luke/6-35.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/1.htm">Luke</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/6.htm">Chapter 6</a> > Verse 35</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/6-34.htm" title="Luke 6:34">◄</a> Luke 6:35 <a href="../luke/6-36.htm" title="Luke 6:36">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/luke/6.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/luke/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/luke/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/luke/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But love your enemies and be good to them. Lend without expecting to be paid back. Then you will get a great reward, and you will be the true children of God in heaven. He is good even to people who are unthankful and cruel. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/luke/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/luke/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.</p><p class="hdg">love.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/6-27.htm">Luke 6:27-31</a> But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/25-35.htm">Leviticus 25:35-37</a> If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/37-26.htm">Psalm 37:26</a> He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed shall be in blessing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/112-5.htm">Psalm 112:5</a> Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/19-17.htm">Proverbs 19:17</a> He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/22-9.htm">Proverbs 22:9</a> He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents, shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/5-8.htm">Romans 5:8-10</a> But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/8-9.htm">2 Corinthians 8:9</a> For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.</p><p class="hdg">and ye.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/5-44.htm">Matthew 5:44,45</a> But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/13-35.htm">John 13:35</a> By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/15-8.htm">John 15:8</a> In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-10.htm">1 John 3:10-14</a> In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-7.htm">1 John 4:7-11</a> Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. . . . </p><p class="hdg">for.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/145-9.htm">Psalm 145:9</a> The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/14-17.htm">Acts 14:17</a> Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/luke/6.htm">Love Your Enemies</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">34</span>And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? For sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much. <span class="reftext">35</span><span class="highl">But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.</span> <span class="reftext">36</span>Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/58-11.htm">Psalm 58:11</a></span><br />And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/5-9.htm">Matthew 5:9</a></span><br />Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/5-45.htm">Matthew 5:45</a></span><br />That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/1-32.htm">Luke 1:32</a></span><br />He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/6-27.htm">Luke 6:27</a></span><br />But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/6-28.htm">Luke 6:28</a></span><br />Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/6-36.htm">Luke 6:36</a></span><br />Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_timothy/3-2.htm">2 Timothy 3:2</a></span><br />Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/luke/6-34.htm">Bad</a> <a href="/luke/5-34.htm">Children</a> <a href="/luke/6-34.htm">Credit</a> <a 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