NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 5:43

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43

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

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Verse 43. And hate thy enemy. The words of the law (Levit. 19:18) are only these: thou shalt love thy friend as thyself; but by a false gloss and inference, these words, and hate thy enemy, were added by the Jewish doctors. Witham.

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not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26

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