But as for you, who hear me, love your enemies: do good to those, who hate you: bless those, who curse you:

for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love.

but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches.

having not wherewithal to pay it, he freely discharged them both of the debt. tell me now, which of the two will love him most?

wherefore, I tell you, her sins, which are numerous, are forgiven; and that is the reason of all this love: but his love is less, to whom less is forgiven.

for whoever would save his life, shall lose it: and he that would lose his life, out of love to me, shall save it.

he replied, 'tis thus, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy understanding; and thy neighbour as thy self."