What Does Luke 6:36 Mean in the King James?
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The compassion you see in your Father is the very pattern the verse names for your life.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to you now: become compassionate in the likeness of your Father, who is compassionate toward you. The Greek word carries the sense of tender pity toward another’s distress, making mercy a felt response rather than a distant idea.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that compassion is absent from God’s nature: the verse names the Father as compassionate.
THE ROOT
οἰκτίρμονες
oiktirmones
GROWS FROM
οἰκτιρ-
oiktir-
Compassion, pity, tender concern for another’s distress.
The same Greek word family names both the reader’s compassion and the Father’s: the verse places them in one shared pattern. English can make “merciful” sound like a decision made at a distance, while this word carries the nearness of tender pity.
ALSO GROWS
oiktirmos: Compassion or tender concern.
οἰκτιρμός
This noun uses the same word family for compassion, showing that the quality named here also appears as a shared, enduring disposition.
oikteirō: To respond to someone with compassion.
οἰκτείρω
The verb makes the root active: compassion is not only a quality but a response to another’s distress.
THE PATTERN
Compassion in human relationships takes its pattern from the compassion of God.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.THE THREAD
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.The Greek word translated “merciful” in Luke appears again in James as “tender mercy.” The same word family describes the compassion of the Father here and the Lord there.
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