Love Your Enemies
43 "You have heard that it was said, Lev. 19:18‘You shall love your neighborDeut. 23:3–6; Ps. 41:10and hate your enemy.’44 But I say to you, Luke 6:27; Rom. 12:14love your enemies, bless those who curse you, (Rom. 12:20)do good to those who hate you, and pray Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60; 1 Cor. 4:12; 1 Pet. 2:23for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for Job 25:3; Ps. 65:9–13; Luke 12:16, 17; Acts 14:17He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.46 Luke 6:32For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?