But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Luke 6:35. Lend, expecting nothing again. It is a mistake to confine this statement to usury, as if Christ only forbade his people to be usurers. The preceding part of the discourse shows clearly, that it has a wider reference.
Hear what Christ says to all who will listen: we must render to every person their due, be just in all dealings, and put ourselves in others' stead. Give freely to those who need what you have to spare, and forgive generously those who have wronged you rather than fight for your rights.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 6:27-36
Be ye therefore merciful,.... Tenderhearted, kind, beneficent to all men, friends and foes: as your Father also is merciful; that is your Father which is in heaven; who is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works: nothing is more common in Zohar (y), and the Talmud (z) than to express the Divine Being by no other name, than "the Merciful"...