OET interlinear LUKE 6:27

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-participants

ἀλλὰ ὑμῖν λέγω τοῖς ἀκούουσιν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἀλλά ὑμῖν λέγω τοῖς ἀκούουσιν ἀγαπᾶτε τούς ἐχθρούς ὑμῶν καλῶς ποιεῖτε τοῖς μισοῦσιν ὑμᾶς)

Jesus uses this phrase to broaden his audience to the entire crowd, beyond his disciples. At the same time, the phrase also calls everyone to focus their attention on what Jesus is about to say. It may be helpful to make this a separate sentence. Alternate translation: [Now I want all of you to listen carefully to this]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν, καλῶς ποιεῖτε τοῖς μισοῦσιν ὑμᾶς

˓be˒_loving (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἀλλά ὑμῖν λέγω τοῖς ἀκούουσιν ἀγαπᾶτε τούς ἐχθρούς ὑμῶν καλῶς ποιεῖτε τοῖς μισοῦσιν ὑμᾶς)

These two phrases mean similar things. Jesus is using repetition to emphasize the importance of what he is saying. You do not need to repeat both phrases in your translation if that would be confusing for your readers. However, there is a slight difference in meaning, and you could also choose to bring that out in your translation. The second phrase specifies in what way followers of Jesus are to love their enemies. They are to do this in a practical way by helping them. Alternate translation: [do good things for people even if they are hostile to you] or [show love to your enemies who hate you by doing things to help them]