“For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”
King James Version (KJV)
6:32 It is greatly observable, our Lord has so little regard for one of the highest instances of natural virtue, namely, the returning love for love, that he does not account it even to deserve thanks. For even sinners, saith he, do the same: men who do not regard God at all. Therefore he may do this, who has not taken one step in Christianity.
Lu 6:32 If ye love them which love you, etc. See the note on "Mt 5:44".
For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke haue ye? for sinners also loue those that loue them.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"If you love those who love you, what credit is {that} to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.
- American Standard Version (1901)
If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.
- Basic English Bible
And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.
- Darby Bible
For if ye love them who love you, what thanks have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
- Webster's Bible
If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.
- Weymouth Bible
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
- World English Bible
And if ye louen hem that louen you, what thanke is to you? for synful men louen men that louen hem.
- Wycliffe Bible
and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;
- Youngs Literal Bible