'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

for he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.'

and they not having wherewith to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

And he answering said, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

'But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

'Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

'No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'