It is good for a person\par to be kind and generous.\par It is good for a person\par to be fair in his business.\par
Luke 6:35 - Easy To Read Version “I’m telling you to love your enemies and do good to them. Lend to people without expecting to get anything back. If you do these things, you will have a great reward. You will be children of the Most High (God). Yes, because God is good even to the people that are full of sin and not thankful. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But love your enemies and be kind and do good [doing favors so that someone derives benefit from them] and lend, expecting and hoping for nothing in return but considering nothing as lost and despairing of no one; and then your recompense (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant), and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind and charitable and good to the ungrateful and the selfish and wicked. American Standard Version (1901) But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. Common English Bible Instead, love your enemies, do good, and lend expecting nothing in return. If you do, you will have a great reward. You will be acting the way children of the Most High act, for he is kind to ungrateful and wicked people. Catholic Public Domain Version So truly, love your enemies. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
It is good for a person\par to be kind and generous.\par It is good for a person\par to be fair in his business.\par
The Lord is good to every person.\par God shows his mercy to everything he made.\par
A good man gives freely to other people.\par And a good man’s children are a blessing.\par
When that happens, people will say:\par “Good people really are rewarded.\par There really is a God\par judging the world!” {\cf2\super [345]} \par
Giving money to poor people is like loaning it to the Lord. The Lord will pay you back for being kind to them.
A person who gives freely will be blessed. He will be blessed because he shares his food with poor people.
What great blessings there are for the people that work to bring peace!\par God will call them his sons and daughters.\par
He will be great (important). People will call him the Son of the Most High (God). The Lord God will make him king like his ancestor David. {\cf2\super [12]}
All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.”
You should make much fruit and show that you are my followers. This brings glory to my Father.
But God was always there doing things that prove he is real. He gives you rain from the sky. He gives you good harvests at the right times. He gives you plenty of food, and he fills your hearts with joy.”
You know the grace (kindness) of our Lord Jesus Christ. You know that Christ was rich \{with God\}, but for you he became poor. Christ did this so that you could become rich by his becoming poor.
In those times people will love only themselves and money. They will be boastful and proud. They will say bad things against other people. They will not obey their parents. They will not be thankful. They will not be the kind of people God wants.