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Luke 6:27-49

Love Your Enemies

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Love Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-49

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This song belongs to the Luke collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Luke
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Luke
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[Refrain - unaccompanied opening] Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless the mouth that curses you; Pray for the hand raised against you. [Verse 1 - rolling pulse] Offer the other cheek; release the cloak, Open the hand when another asks. Do unto others as you would receive, Not counting the road back to yourself. [Verse 2 - widening measure] If love returns only where love began, What grace has crossed the boundary? The Highest is kind to the unthankful and evil; Be merciful as your Father is merciful. [Bridge - inward turn] Judge not. Condemn not. Forgive. The measure you pour will return overflowing. Can the blind lead the blind past the ditch? First take the beam from your own eye. [Verse 3 - fruit test] A tree is known by the fruit on its branches, The mouth draws words from the heart's stored treasure. Why call Me Lord and leave My sayings undone? Hearing becomes truth when the hands obey. [Refrain - displaced return] Love your enemies. Do good, lend, and look for nothing again. Bless, pray, forgive, give; Become like the merciful Father. [Outro - grounded] Dig deep. Lay the foundation on rock. The flood may rise, the stream may strike; The house that hears and does will stand. The house with no foundation falls.

About the passage

Luke 6: Mercy exposes a different measure

The Book of Luke 6 puts Sabbath arguments, chosen apostles, blessings and woes, enemy-love, judgment, speech, and foundations under one searching question: what kind of life does Jesus' teaching actually produce? The Sabbath disputes reveal a sharp contrast between a restored hand and people watching for grounds of accusation. After a night of prayer, Jesus chooses twelve from among a much larger body of disciples, then addresses that community amid crowds seeking healing. His blessings and woes overturn easy confidence in present comfort, while enemy-love breaks the ordinary economy of repayment by grounding mercy in the Father's kindness even toward the unthankful and evil. The warning against judging is not a ban on seeing any fault; the beam must come out so the eye can see clearly enough to help. Trees are known by fruit, hearts by what they produce, and houses by what the flood reveals about their hidden foundations. The chapter ends by making admiration insufficient: hearing becomes meaningful only when it reaches conduct.

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