35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; …
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. …
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-36)These verses agree with Matt. 5:38; to the end of that chapter: I say unto you that hear (Luke 6:27), to all you that hear, and not to disciples only, for these are lessons of universal concern. He that has an ear, let him hear . Those that diligently hearken to Christ shall find he has something to say to them well worth their hearing. Now the lessons Christ here teacheth us are, I. That we must…
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