Luke 6:33

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

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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ἀγαθοποιῆτε

agathopoiéō

G15

“to do good”

Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural

Appears 9× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Luke 6:9

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: from G17

TDNT: 01:17,3

1. to do good, do something which profits others a. to be a good help to someone b. to do someone a favour c. to benefit 2. to do well, do right

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

17: words
12: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is ἀγαθοποιῆτε to do good G15 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

ἀγαθοποιῆτε to do good G15 occurs in 8 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

Words recur within this verse:

ἀγαθοποιῆτε to do good G15 ×2
τοὺς the G3588 ×3
καὶ and G2532 ×2
ὑμᾶς you G5210 ×2

Commentary

Notes on Luke 6:33 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Expositor's Greek Testament

ed. W. Robertson Nicoll

Luk 6:33 . For Mt.’s salutation Lk. substitutes doing good ( ἀγαθοποιῆτε ).

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(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.

John Gill's Exposition

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:

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.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

33. καὶ AD. καὶ γάρ אB.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Alford’s Greek Testament

Henry Alford

33 ff.] χάρις corresponds to μισθός, Matt. (see note on Mat 5:12).

Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

International Critical Commentary

33. Here only is ἀγαθοποιεῖν found with an acc. after it. It does not occur in profane writers, and elsewhere in N.T. is absolute: vv. 9, 35; Mar 3:4; 1Pe 2:15, 1Pe 2:20, 1Pe 2:3:6, 1Pe 2:17; 3Jn 1:11. But in 1 Pet. and 3 Jn. it is used of doing what is right as opposed to doing what is wrong, whereas it Lk. and Mt. it is used, as in LXX, of helping others as opposed to harming them: Num 10:32; Jud 1:17:13 (Cod. B ἀγαθυνεῖ); Zep 1:12. Hatch, Bibl. Grk. p. 7; but see Lft. on Clem. Rom. Cor. 2. p. 17.

For ἁμαρτωλοί Mt. has in the one case τελῶναι and in the other ἐθνικοί. Of course both “publicans” and “heathen” are here used in a moral sense, because of their usual bad character; and Weiss confidently asserts that Lk. is here interpreting, while Mt. gives the actual words used. But it is possible that Mt. writing as a Jew, has given the classes who to Jews were sinners κατʼ ἐξοχήν instead of the general term.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 17 words (12 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is agathopoiéō (“to do good”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to do good” (agathopoiéō) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Luke 6:9, which shares the word «to do good», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to do good” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how Expositor's Greek Testament and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
“to do good” occurs 2× in this single verse.
12 distinct Greek lemmas span 17 words in this verse.