But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
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Gill's Exposition
Bless them that curse you;.... In common discourse, or anathematize you in their synagogues:
and pray for them which despitefully use you: so Christ himself did; See Gill on Mat 5:44.
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luk 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully…
These verses agree with Mat 5:38, to the end of that chapter: I say unto you that hear (Luk 6:27), to all you that hear, and not to disciples only, for these are lessons of universal concern. He that…
27-38. The Laws of Love and Mercy.
27-30. The manifestationsof Love. 31. Its formula. 32-35. Its distinctiveness. 35-36. Its model. 37-45. Love as the principle of all judgment. Godet.]
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