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43 (A)“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’(B)

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Love for Enemies

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a](A) and hate your enemy.’(B)

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  1. Matthew 5:43 Lev. 19:18

19 honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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19 honor your father and mother,’[a](A) and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’[b](B)

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  1. Matthew 19:19 Exodus 20:12-16; Deut. 5:16-20
  2. Matthew 19:19 Lev. 19:18

39 (A)The second is like it:[a] You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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  1. 22:39 Jesus goes beyond the extent of the question put to him and joins to the greatest and the first commandment a second, that of love of neighbor, Lv 19:18; see note on Mt 19:18–19. This combination of the two commandments may already have been made in Judaism.

39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a](A)

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  1. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18

31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”(A)

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31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a](A) There is no commandment greater than these.”

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  1. Mark 12:31 Lev. 19:18

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, [namely] “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(A)

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The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a](A) and whatever other command there may be, are summed up(B) in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b](C)

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  1. Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21
  2. Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18

14 For the whole law(A) is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[a]

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  1. 5:14 Lv 19:18, emphasized by Jesus (Mt 22:39; Lk 10:27); cf. Rom 13:8–10.

14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[a](A)

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  1. Galatians 5:14 Lev. 19:18

However, if you fulfill the royal[a] law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.(A)

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  1. 2:8 Royal: literally, “kingly”; because the Mosaic law came from God, the universal king. There may be an allusion to Jesus’ uses of this commandment in his preaching of the kingdom of God (Mt 22:39; Mk 12:31; Lk 10:27).

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a](A) you are doing right.

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  1. James 2:8 Lev. 19:18

14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.(A)

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14 We know that we have passed from death to life,(A) because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.(B)

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