Love Your Enemies

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.”

When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

The Law and the Kingdom of God

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,