Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 6:32

"And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them." — Luke 6:32 (ASV)

For if ye love them which love you.—See the note on Matthew 5:46, and note St. Luke’s use, as writing for Gentiles, of the wider term “sinners,” instead of the more specific “publicans,” which gave the maxim its particular force, perhaps, for those who originally heard it, and certainly for St. Matthew’s Jewish readers. There is also a slight variation in the form of the closing questions—St. Luke’s what thank have ye pointing to the expectation of gratitude in return for good deeds, St. Matthew’s what reward to a more concrete and solid payment.