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# Luke 6

Luke 6 is chapter 6 of 24 in the Gospel of Luke. Here are all 49 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ excuses his disciples. He cures upon the sabbath day, chooses the twelve and makes a sermon to them.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Luke 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now it happened that, on the second first Sabbath, as he passed through the grain field, his disciples were separating the ears of grain and eating them, by rubbing them in their hands.
2. Then certain Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?”
3. And responding to them, Jesus said: “Have you not read this, what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him?
4. How he entered into the house of God, and took the bread of the Presence, and ate it, and gave it to those who were with him, though it is not lawful for anyone to eat it, except the priests alone?”
5. And he said to them, “For the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”
6. And it happened that, on another Sabbath, he entered into the synagogue, and he taught. And there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
7. And the scribes and Pharisees observed whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might thereby find an accusation against him.
8. Yet truly, he knew their thoughts, and so he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up and stand in the middle.” And rising up, he stood still.
9. Then Jesus said to them: “I ask you if it is lawful on the Sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? To give health to a life, or to destroy it?”
10. And looking around at everyone, he said to the man, “Extend your hand.” And he extended it. And his hand was restored.
11. Then they were filled with madness, and they discussed with one another, what, in particular, they might do about Jesus.
12. And it happened that, in those days, he went out to a mountain to pray. And he was in the prayer of God throughout the night.
13. And when daylight had arrived, he called his disciples. And he chose twelve out of them (whom he also named Apostles):
14. Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
15. Matthew and Thomas, James of Alphaeus, and Simon who is called the Zealot,
16. and Jude of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was a traitor.
17. And descending with them, he stood in a level place with a multitude of his disciples, and a copious multitude of people from all of Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast, and Tyre and Sidon,
18. who had come so that they might listen to him and be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled by unclean spirits were cured.
19. And the entire crowd was trying to touch him, because power went out from him and healed all.
20. And lifting up his eyes to his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
21. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who are weeping now, for you shall laugh.
22. Blessed shall you be when men will have hated you, and when they will have separated you and reproached you, and thrown out your name as if evil, because of the Son of man.
23. Be glad in that day and exult. For behold, your reward is great in heaven. For these same things their fathers did to the prophets.
24. Yet truly, woe to you who are wealthy, for you have your consolation.
25. Woe to you who are satisfied, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
26. Woe to you when men will have blessed you. For these same things their fathers did to the false prophets.
27. But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
28. Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who slander you.
29. And to him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your coat, do not withhold even your tunic.
30. But distribute to all who ask of you. And do not ask again of him who takes away what is yours.
31. And exactly as you would want people to treat you, treat them also the same.
32. And if you love those who love you, what credit is due to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
33. And if you will do good to those who do good to you, what credit is due to you? Indeed, even sinners behave this way.
34. And if you will loan to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is due to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, in order to receive the same in return.
35. So truly, love your enemies. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked.
36. Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father is also merciful.
37. Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38. Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”
39. Now he told them another comparison: “How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit?
40. The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like his teacher.
41. And why do you see the straw that is in your brother’s eye, while the log that is in your own eye, you do not consider?
42. Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, allow me to remove the straw from your eye,’ while you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? Hypocrite, first remove the log from your own eye, and then will you see clearly, so that you may lead out the straw from your brother’s eye.
43. For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit.
44. For each and every tree is known by its fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape from the bramble bush.
45. A good man, from the good storehouse of his heart, offers what is good. And an evil man, from the evil storehouse, offers what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
46. But why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I say?
47. Anyone who comes to me, and listens to my words, and does them: I will reveal to you what he is like.
48. He is like a man building a house, who has dug deep and has laid the foundation upon the rock. Then, when the floodwaters came, the river was rushing against that house, and it was not able to move it. For it was founded upon the rock.
49. But whoever hears and does not do: he is like a man building his house upon the soil, without a foundation. The river rushed against it, and it soon fell down, and the ruin of that house was great.”

## Luke 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Factum est autem in sabbato secundo, primo, cum transiret per sata, vellebant discipuli ejus spicas, et manducabant confricantes manibus.
2. Quidam autem pharisæorum, dicebant illis: Quid facitis quod non licet in sabbatis?
3. Et respondens Jesus ad eos, dixit: Nec hoc legistis quod fecit David, cum esurisset ipse, et qui cum illo erant?
4. quomodo intravit in domum Dei, et panes propositionis sumpsit, et manducavit, et dedit his qui cum ipso erant: quos non licet manducare nisi tantum sacerdotibus?
5. Et dicebat illis: Quia dominus est Filius hominis etiam sabbati.
6. Factum est autem in alio sabbato, ut intraret in synagogam, et doceret. Et erat ibi homo, et manus ejus dextra erat arida.
7. Observabant autem scribæ et pharisæi si in sabbato curaret, ut invenirent unde accusarent eum.
8. Ipse vero sciebat cogitationes eorum: et ait homini qui habebat manum aridam: Surge, et sta in medium. Et surgens stetit.
9. Ait autem ad illos Jesus: Interrogo vos si licet sabbatis benefacere, an male: animam salvam facere, an perdere?
10. Et circumspectis omnibus dixit homini: Extende manum tuam. Et extendit: et restituta est manus ejus.
11. Ipsi autem repleti sunt insipientia, et colloquebantur ad invicem, quidnam facerent Jesu.
12. Factum est autem in illis diebus, exiit in montem orare, et erat pernoctans in oratione Dei.
13. Et cum dies factus esset, vocavit discipulos suos: et elegit duodecim ex ipsis (quos et apostolos nominavit):
14. Simonem, quem cognominavit Petrum, et Andream fratrem ejus, Jacobum, et Joannem, Philippum, et Bartholomæum,
15. Matthæum, et Thomam, Jacobum Alphæi, et Simonem, qui vocatur Zelotes,
16. et Judam Jacobi, et Judam Iscariotem, qui fuit proditor.
17. Et descendens cum illis, stetit in loco campestri, et turba discipulorum ejus, et multitudo copiosa plebis ab omni Judæa, et Jerusalem, et maritima, et Tyri, et Sidonis,
18. qui venerant ut audirent eum, et sanarentur a languoribus suis. Et qui vexabantur a spiritibus immundis, curabantur.
19. Et omnis turba quærebat eum tangere: quia virtus de illo exibat, et sanabat omnes.
20. Et ipse elevatis oculis in discipulis suis, dicebat: Beati pauperes, quia vestrum est regnum Dei.
21. Beati qui nunc esuritis, quia saturabimini. Beati qui nunc fletis, quia ridebitis.
22. Beati eritis cum vos oderint homines, et cum separaverint vos, et exprobraverint, et ejicerint nomen vestrum tamquam malum propter Filium hominis.
23. Gaudete in illa die, et exsultate: ecce enim merces vestra multa est in cælo: secundum hæc enim faciebant prophetis patres eorum.
24. Verumtamen væ vobis divitibus, quia habetis consolationem vestram.
25. Væ vobis, qui saturati estis: quia esurietis. Væ vobis, qui ridetis nunc: quia lugebitis et flebitis.
26. Væ cum benedixerint vobis homines: secundum hæc enim faciebant pseudoprophetis patres eorum.
27. Sed vobis dico, qui auditis: diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite his qui oderunt vos.
28. Benedicite maledicentibus vobis, et orate pro calumniantibus vos.
29. Et qui te percutit in maxillam, præbe et alteram. Et ab eo qui aufert tibi vestimentum, etiam tunicam noli prohibere.
30. Omni autem petenti te, tribue: et qui aufert quæ tua sunt, ne repetas.
31. Et prout vultis ut faciant vobis homines, et vos facite illis similiter.
32. Et si diligitis eos qui vos diligunt, quæ vobis est gratia? nam et peccatores diligentes se diligunt.
33. Et si benefeceritis his qui vobis benefaciunt, quæ vobis est gratia? siquidem et peccatores hoc faciunt.
34. Et si mutuum dederitis his a quibus speratis recipere, quæ gratia est vobis? nam et peccatores peccatoribus fœnerantur, ut recipiant æqualia.
35. Verumtamen diligite inimicos vestros: benefacite, et mutuum date, nihil inde sperantes: et erit merces vestra multa, et eritis filii Altissimi, quia ipse benignus est super ingratos et malos.
36. Estote ergo misericordes sicut et Pater vester misericors est.
37. Nolite judicare, et non judicabimini: nolite condemnare, et non condemnabimini. Dimittite, et dimittemini.
38. Date, et dabitur vobis: mensuram bonam, et confertam, et coagitatam, et supereffluentem dabunt in sinum vestrum. Eadem quippe mensura, qua mensi fueritis, remetietur vobis.
39. Dicebat autem illis et similitudinem: Numquid potest cæcus cæcum ducere? nonne ambo in foveam cadunt?
40. Non est discipulus super magistrum: perfectus autem omnis erit, si sit sicut magister ejus.
41. Quid autem vides festucam in oculo fratris tui, trabem autem, quæ in oculo tuo est, non consideras?
42. aut quomodo potes dicere fratri tuo: Frater, sine ejiciam festucam de oculo tuo: ipse in oculo tuo trabem non videns? Hypocrita, ejice primum trabem de oculo tuo: et tunc perspicies ut educas festucam de oculo fratris tui.
43. Non est enim arbor bona, quæ facit fructus malos: neque arbor mala, faciens fructum bonum.
44. Unaquæque enim arbor de fructu suo cognoscitur. Neque enim de spinis colligunt ficus: neque de rubo vindemiant uvam.
45. Bonus homo de bono thesauro cordis sui profert bonum: et malus homo de malo thesauro profert malum. Ex abundantia enim cordis os loquitur.
46. Quid autem vocatis me Domine, Domine: et non facitis quæ dico?
47. Omnis qui venit ad me, et audit sermones meos, et facit eos, ostendam vobis cui similis sit:
48. similis est homini ædificanti domum, qui fodit in altum, et posuit fundamentum super petram: inundatione autem facta, illisum est flumen domui illi, et non potuit eam movere: fundata enim erat super petram.
49. Qui autem audit, et non facit, similis est homini ædificanti domum suam super terram sine fundamento: in quam illisus est fluvius, et continuo cecidit: et facta est ruina domus illius magna.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 581: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1577: Who Can Receive This Sacrament? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2600: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 880: Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 695: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1116: The Sacraments of Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1504: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2444: Love For the Poor ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2546: Poverty of Heart ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2547: Poverty of Heart ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1669: Sacramentals ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1789: To Choose in Accord With Conscience ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1970: The New Law or the Law of the Gospel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2842: "And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, as We Forgive Those Who Trespass AGAINST US" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1458: The Acts of the Penitent ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” — St. John of the Cross, Sayings of Light and Love, 26, c. 1585 (On this theme: verse 27)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “The second first sabbath” … Some understand this of the sabbath of Pentecost, which was the second in course among the great feasts: others, of a sabbath day that immediately followed any solemn feast.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Sep 4, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 6:1-5
- Mon, Sep 6, 2027 (computed): Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 6:6-11
- Tue, Sep 7, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Luke 6:12-19
- Thu, Sep 9, 2027 (computed): St. Peter Claver, Priest — Gospel, Luke 6:27-38

13 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).