If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
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If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
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And yf ye do for them which do for you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners do even the same.
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And if ye do good for them which do good for you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners doe the same.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if ye lend to them of whom ye…
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive,.... The same again, as from their brethren the Jews; or usury, as from the Gentiles:
what thank have ye? and yet they looked upon this, in the first instance of it, as a very great kindness, and act of goodness, as appears from the above citation:
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for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again; or "what is equal", and answerable to what they have lent them; that is, the same, or what is equivalent to it.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (33) If ye do good to them . .…
(33) If ye do good to them . . .—Actual deeds of kindness take the place in St. Luke which in St. Matthew is occupied by the salutations which were but the outward signs of kindness.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.