Luke 6:36
Good News Translation
Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.

New Revised Standard Version
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Contemporary English Version
Have pity on others, just as your Father has pity on you.

New American Bible
Be merciful, just as [also] your Father is merciful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

Ephesians 5:1,2 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: . . .

1 Peter 1:15,16 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy: . . .

Context
Love Your Enemies
35But 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. 36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 37Judge not: and you shall not be judged. Condemn not: and you shall not be condemned. Forgive: and you shall be forgiven.…
Cross References
Luke 6:35
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.

Luke 6:37
Judge not: and you shall not be judged. Condemn not: and you shall not be condemned. Forgive: and you shall be forgiven.

Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

Luke 6:35
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