Matthew 5
World English Bible Protestant Edition, 2020 stable text
41
Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
42
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
44
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
46
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
47
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors§ do the same?
48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Source notes
Isaiah 57:15; 66:2
Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13
or, land.
Psalms 37:11
literally, iota
or, serif
Exodus 20:13
NU omits “without a cause”.
“Raca” is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for “empty” and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.
or, Hell
literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow’s mites)—not enough to buy very much of anything.
TR adds “to the ancients”.
Exodus 20:14
or, Hell
or, Hell
Deuteronomy 24:1
Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4
Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21
Leviticus 19:18
not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26
NU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”.