Luke 6:31 (BSB)
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Commentary on Luke 6:31
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Luke 6:27-36: 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 has an ear, let him hear. Those that diligently hearken to Christ shall find he has something to say to them well worth their hearing.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Luke 6:31: For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye?.... Or, "what grace have ye?" this is no fruit, nor evidence of grace, nor any exercise of the true grace of love; nor is it any favour conferred upon the object loved, which deserves the respect shown, nor can any reward be expected for such treatment: and thus it is expressed in Matthew...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Luke 6:31: Verse 31. (o) "And as you would that men"
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Luke 6:12-49: THE TWELVE APOSTLES CHOSEN--GATHERING MULTITUDES--GLORIOUS HEALING. (Luke 6:12-49) went out--probably from Capernaum. all night in prayer . . . and when . . . day, he called, &c.--The work with which the next day began shows what had been the burden of this night's devotions.