“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Parallel translations
- KJV Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
- BSB You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’
- NKJV “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
- NASB “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
- NLT “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy.
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- Lev 19:18“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
- Ps 139:21–22Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
- Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- Matt 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Rom 13:8–10Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- Deut 23:6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
- Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
- Mark 12:31–34The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
- Matt 22:39–40A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Ps 41:10But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.
- Luke 10:27–29He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
- Exod 17:14–16Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
- Matt 5:21“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
- Deut 25:17Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
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