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The Sermon on the Mount: Love for Enemies

43 "You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’* and ‘Hate your enemy.’*44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

12 This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

Love Fulfills the Law

8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.

14 All your actions must be done in love.

12 and may the Lord cause you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we do for you,

Concluding Ethical Instructions

1 Brotherly love must continue. 2 Do not neglect hospitality, because through this some have received angels as guests without knowing it. 3 Remember the prisoners, as though you were fellow-prisoners; remember* the mistreated, as though you yourselves also are being mistreated* in the body.

8 However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"* you are doing well.

8 Above all, keep* your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

Appeal for New Behavior

12 Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, 13 putting up with one another and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as also the Lord forgave you, thus also you do the same. 14 And to all these things add love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

God is Love, so Love One Another

11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him. 16 We have come to know love by this: that he* laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

16 We have come to know love by this: that he* laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

God’s Love Revealed

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.