Love Your Enemies

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor^[a](A) and hate your enemy. ⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies^[b] and pray for those who^[c] persecute you,^{(B) 45} so that you may be^[d] 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.^{(C) 46} 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?^[e](D) Don’t even the Gentiles^[f] do the same? ⁴⁸ Be perfect,^(E) therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and^[a] we can take nothing out.^{(A) 8} If we have food and clothing,^[b] we will be content with these. ⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

²⁹ Jesus replied, “This is the work^(A) of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.”^(B)

³⁰ “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna^(C) in the wilderness,^(D) just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”^[a](E)

³² Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses^(F) didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ “I am^(G) the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me^(H) will ever be hungry,^(I) and no one who believes in me^(J) will ever be thirsty^(K) again. ³⁶ But as I told you, you’ve seen me,^[b] and yet you do not believe. ³⁷ Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.^{(L) 38} For I have come down from heaven,^(M) not to do my own will, but the will of him^(N) who sent me. ³⁹ This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise^(O) them up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father: ^(P) that everyone who sees the Son^(Q) and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise^(R) him up on the last day.”