And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
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Gill's Exposition
But love ye your enemies,.... As before urged in Luk 6:27
and do good and lend; not to your friends only, but to your enemies;
hoping for nothing again; either principal or interest, despairing of…
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luk 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully…
Adam Clarke
Of whom ye hope to receive - Or, whom ye expect to return it. "To make our neighbor purchase, in any way, the assistance which we give him, is to profit by his misery; and, by laying him under…
These verses agree with Mat 5:38, to the end of that chapter: I say unto you that hear (Luk 6:27), to all you that hear, and not to disciples only, for these are lessons of universal concern. He that…
Cambridge Bible
to receive as much again From this we see that -interest" and -usury" are not here contemplated at all.
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