Matthew 5:43
Good News Translation
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your friends, hate your enemies.'

New Revised Standard Version
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

Contemporary English Version
You have heard people say, "Love your neighbors and hate your enemies."

New American Bible
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Thou.

Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Matthew 22:39,40 And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

Leviticus 19:18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Mark 12:31-34 And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. . . .

Luke 10:27-29 He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

Romans 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. . . .

Galatians 5:13,14 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another. . . .

James 2:8 If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

and hate.

Exodus 17:14-16 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven. . . .

Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:

Psalm 41:10 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.

Psalm 139:21,22 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies? . . .

Context
Love Your Enemies
42Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away. 43You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy. 44But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18
Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Matthew 5:21
You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.

Matthew 5:27
You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

1 John 4:21
And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

Matthew 5:42
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