Love Your Enemies
27 "But I say to you who hear, See Matt. 5:44Love your enemies, Prov. 25:21,22;Rom. 12:20,21do good to those who hate you,28 1 Pet. 3:9bless those who curse you, [See ver. 27above]pray for those who abuse you.
32 Matt. 5:46"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.35 But ver. 27love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and Matt. 5:45you will be sons of ch. 1:32;See Mark 5:7the Most High, for [James 1:5]he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.36 [Matt. 5:7,48;Eph. 5:1,2;James 3:17] Be merciful, even as James 5:11your Father is merciful.