Matthew 5:44-47

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⁴⁴But I tell you, love your enemies^[a] and pray for those who^[b] persecute you,^(A) ⁴⁵so that you may be^[c] children 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.^(B) ⁴⁶For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? ⁴⁷And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what are you doing out of the ordinary?^[d]^(C) Don’t even the Gentiles^[e] do the same?

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Footnotes

5:44 Other mss add bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you,
5:44 Other mss add mistreat you and
5:45 Or may become, or may show yourselves to be
5:47 Or doing that is superior; lit doing more
5:47 Other mss read tax collectors

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