Mateus 5

Love Your Enemies

43 "You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor* 5:43 Lv 19:18,* 5:43 Lv 19:18; Dt 23:6; Lk 10:29and hate your enemy.44 But I tell you, love your enemies* 5:44 Other mss add bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you,and pray for those who* 5:44 Other mss add mistreat you andpersecute you,* 5:44 Lk 6:27; 23:34; Ac 7:60; Rm 12:20; 1Co 4:12; 1Pt 2:2345 so that you may be* 5:45 Or may become, or may show yourselves to bechildren of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.* 5:45 Jb 25:3; Mt 5:9; Lk 6:35; Ac 14:1746 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what are you doing out of the ordinary?* 5:47 Or doing that is superior; lit doing more,* 5:47 Mt 5:37; Mk 6:51; Jn 10:10; Rm 3:1; 2Co 9:1Don’t even the Gentiles* 5:47 Other mss read tax collectorsdo the same?48 Be perfect,* 5:48 Gn 17:1; Lv 19:2; Php 3:15; Col 4:12; Jms 1:4; 1Pt 1:15therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.