Matthew 5:43

New English Translation

⁴³“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’^[a] and ‘hate your enemy.’^[b]

Matthew 5:43 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.
Matthew 5:43 sn The phrase hate your enemy does not occur explicitly in the OT, but was commonly inferred from passages like Deut 7:2; 30:7; Ps 26:5; Ps 139:21-22. Jesus’ hearers (and Matthew’s readers) would not have been surprised by the statement. It is the antithesis Jesus gives in the following verses that would have shocked them.

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