Luke 6:36
New International Version
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

New Living Translation
You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.

English Standard Version
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Berean Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Berean Literal Bible
Be you merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

King James Bible
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

New King James Version
Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

New American Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

NASB 1995
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

NASB 1977
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Amplified Bible
Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.

Christian Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

American Standard Version
Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Be therefore merciful, just as also your Father is merciful.”

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

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

English Revised Version
Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Be merciful as your Father is merciful.

Good News Translation
Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.

International Standard Version
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."

Literal Standard Version
be therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

Majority Standard Bible
Therefore be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

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

NET Bible
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

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

New Heart English Bible
Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Weymouth New Testament
Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

World English Bible
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Young's Literal Translation
be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

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Context
Love Your Enemies
35But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. 37Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.…

Cross References
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and 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 5:1
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians 5:1,2
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; …

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Luke 6
1. Jesus reproves the Pharisees;
12. chooses apostles;
17. heals the diseased;
20. preaches to his disciples before the people: the beattitudes;
27. Love your Enemy
37. Do not Judge
43. A Tree and Its Fruit
46. The House on the Rock














(36) Be ye therefore merciful.--The form of the sentence is the same as that of Matthew 5:48, but "merciful" takes the place of "perfect," as being the noblest of the divine attributes, in which all others reach their completeness. The well-known passage in Shakespeare on the "quality of mercy," is, perhaps, the best comment on this verse (Merchant of Venice, iv. 1).

Verse 36. - Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. "Yes," goes on the Master, "be ye kind, tender-hearted, merciful; stop not short at the easier love, but go on to the harder; and do this because God does it even to the unthankful and evil" (ver. 35). On this attribute of the mercy of the Most High, James, who had evidently drunk deep of the wisdom contained in this great discourse of his so-called brother, speaks of the Lord as "very pitiful, and of tender mercy" (James 5:11).

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Greek
Be
Γίνεσθε (Ginesthe)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

merciful,
οἰκτίρμονες (oiktirmones)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3629: Compassionate, merciful. From oikteiro; compassionate.

just
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

as
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Father
Πατὴρ (Patēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

is
ἐστίν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

merciful.
οἰκτίρμων (oiktirmōn)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3629: Compassionate, merciful. From oikteiro; compassionate.


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