Luke 6:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So be merciful (sympathetic, tender, responsive, and compassionate) even as your Father is [all these].

American Standard Version (1901)

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Common English Bible

Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father is also merciful.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 6:36 Cross References

Matthew 5:48

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Luke 6:35

Instead, 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 himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Luke 6:37

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Ephesians 4:31

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.