Luke 6:36 Meaning and Explanation
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”
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What Does Luke 6:36 Mean?
Jesus seals the whole section with a single sentence: 'Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.' The standard is not a code but a Person. Everything commanded since verse 27 — love, blessing, prayer, giving — has been a portrait of the Father's own heart.
Mercy here is not a mood but a family trait to be practiced until it fits. We love because he first loved us (1 John 4:19), and we show mercy as people who live on it daily. The verse invites an honest audit: the truest measure of how well we know the Father's mercy is how much of it gets through us to others.
Luke 6:36 in the Original Language
oiktirmon (οἰκτίρμων), 'merciful' -- tenderly compassionate, moved with a pity that acts.
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What does Luke 6:36 mean?
Be merciful, Jesus says, just as your Father is merciful.