Matthew 5:43 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:43

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

KJV

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

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Commentary

2 voices

Glossa Ordinaria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (1274)

(non occ.) The Lord has taught above that we must not resist one who offers any injury, but must be ready even to suffer more; He now further requires us to show to them that do us wrong both love and its effects. And as the things that have gone before pertain to the completion of the righteousness of the Law, in like manner this last precept is to be referred to the completion of the law of love, which, according to the Apostle, is the fulfilling of the Law. (ord.)

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 42, 43.) Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said: Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. If we understand this saying to mean only about almsgiving, it cannot apply to most of the poor. But even if the rich give constantly, they cannot give constantly. Therefore, after the good of almsgiving, instructions are given to the apostles, that is, to the teachers, so that those who have received for free may give for free (Matthew 10).

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy - The command to love our neighbor was a law of God, Lev 19:18. That we must therefore hate our enemy was an inference drawn from it by the Jews. They supposed that if we loved the one, we must of course hate the other. They were total strangers to that great, special law of religion which requires us to love both.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἠκούσατε	Ēkousate	You have heard	G191 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐρρέθη·	errethē	it was said;	G2046 →
ἀγαπήσεις	agapēseis	You will love	G25 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πλησίον	plēsion	neighbour	G4139 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μισήσεις	misēseis	will hate	G3404 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἐχθρόν	echthron	enemy	G2190 →
σου.	sou	of you.’	G4771 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 19:18
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
leads to
- Matthew 22:39–40
  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Romans 13:9
  The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Mark 12:31–34
  The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
- Luke 10:27–37
  He answered, “‘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 ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Galatians 5:14
  The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Through
Matthew 19:19
honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
leads to
- Leviticus 19:18
  Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- Exodus 20:12
  Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 5:16
  Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…