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  • Matthew 5:43
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 43 “You heard that it was said: ‘You must love your neighbor+ and hate your enemy.’

  • Matthew 5:43
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 43 Ἠκούσατε YOU heard ὅτι that ἐρρέθη it was said ᾿Αγαπήσεις You shall love τὸν the πλησίον neighbor σου of you καὶ and μισήσεις you shall hate τὸν the ἐχθρόν enemy σου. of you.

  • Matthew 5:43
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 43 “YOU heard that it was said, ‘You must love your neighbor+ and hate your enemy.’+

  • Matthew 5:43
    The Bible in Living English
    • 43 “You have heard that it was said ‘you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

  • Matthew 5:43
    American Standard Version
    • 43 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

  • Matthew 5:43
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 43 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy.

  • Matthew 5:43
    King James Version
    • 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 5:43 cf 103-104; it-1 1043; w08 5/15 7-8; w95 6/15 5; w90 10/1 13-14

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 5:43 w78 7/1 5; ad 718; w68 127; w60 204; w53 479

  • Matthew
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 5:43

      “My Follower,” pp. 103-104

      Insight, Volume 1, p. 1043

      The Watchtower,

      5/15/2008, pp. 7-8

      6/15/1995, p. 5

      10/1/1990, pp. 13-14

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 5:43

      You heard that it was said: See study note on Mt 5:21.

      You must love your neighbor: The Mosaic Law directed the Israelites to love their neighbor. (Le 19:18) While the term “neighbor” simply meant one’s fellow man, some Jews narrowed the meaning to include only fellow Jews, especially those who kept the oral traditions; all other people were to be considered enemies.

      hate your enemy: The Mosaic Law contained no such command. Some Jewish rabbis believed that the command to love their neighbor implied that they should hate their enemy.

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