Translations
Modern
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Traditional
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Literal
And if you love those loving you, what grace is it to you? For even the sinners love those loving them.
Latin
Et si diligitis eos qui vos diligunt, quæ vobis est gratia? nam et peccatores diligentes se diligunt.
Original
Greek
English
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Notes
The main theme of the great sermon of Jesus is that those who repent and enter the kingdom of God will live in a truly righteous way.
Events
- Sermon on the Mountc. AD 28
Parallels
Glossary
Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) God, Being and Attributes of Luke, Gospel of Peter, First Letter of
Topics
Commandments: Precepts of Jesus--Explicitly Stated, or Implied in Didactic Discourse Enemy: General Scriptures Concerning Forgiveness of Enemies Good for Evil: General Scriptures Concerning Jesus, the Christ: Delivers the |Sermon on the Mount| (In Galilee) Love of Man for Man Loving Difficult People Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Selfish Ambitions Selfishness: General Scriptures Concerning Sermon of Jesus |On the Plain|