Matthew 5:43 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. ”

Matthew 5:43 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy - The command to love our neighbor was a law of God, Leviticus 19:18 . That we must therefore hate our en...
Matthew 5:43 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Loving One's Neighbour ( cf. Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32-36 ).Thou shalt love thy neighbour ( i.e. fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law ( Leviticus 19:18 ); and hate thine enemy is a Rab...
Matthew 5:43 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

THE LAW OF LOVE. it hath been said . it was said. Quoted from Leviticus 19:18 . thine enemy . thy foe. Personal, political, or religious.
Matthew 5:43 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 . Thou shalt love thy neighbor. It is astonishing, that the Scribes fell into so great an absurdity, as to limit the word neighbor to benevolent persons: for nothing is more...
Matthew 5:43 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1309 LOVE TO ENEMIES ENJOINED Matthew 5:43-48 . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless...
Matthew 5:43 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy - Instead of πλησιον neighbor, the Codex Graevii, a MS. o...
Matthew 5:43 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye have heard, &c.— It may be proper to note here, in this last quotation, the manner of our Lord's quoting the doctrines which he chose to speak of. He does not say, Ye know that it was said,...
Matthew 5:43 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Ye have heard that it hath been said ( Leviticus 19:18 ), Thou shalt love thy neighbour. [To this t...
Matthew 5:43 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...
Matthew 5:43 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. — In form the latter clause was a Rabbinic addition to the former; and this is important as showing that our Lord deals throughout not with the...
Matthew 5:43 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 5:43 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Brotherly Relationship Matthew 5:38-48 In mentioning the second mile, our Lord refers to a well-known Eastern custom of forwarding messages by relays of forced labor. We leave our homes on a gi...
Matthew 5:43 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
Matthew 5:43 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Was there ever such a refinement of the most perfect law of the LORD as is here drawn? And where shall we look for the fulfilment of it but in the Lord JESUS himself? He indeed, and He only, observed...
Matthew 5:43 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ye have heard that it hath been said ,.... By, or to them of old time. This law has been delivered to them, thou shalt love thy neighbour , with this appendage to it, or false gloss upon it, and...
Matthew 5:43 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Ver. 43. Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy ] This latter they drew as an inference fro...
Matthew 5:43 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ye have heard that it hath been said In this, as is in the former instances, our Lord, intending to comprehend not only the law itself, but the explications of it given by the Jewish doctors, and s...
Matthew 5:43 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
Matthew 5:43 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I s...
Matthew 5:43 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, was the old law of God, Leviticus 19:18 ; the other part, and hate thine enemy, was the Pharisees addition, or rather their collection, be...
Matthew 5:43 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Five Fuller Applications of the Law (5:21-43). In order to bring home what His disciples' approach to the Law should be Jesus selects five pivotal aspects of the Law, and expands on them and expla...
Matthew 5:43 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
Matthew 5:43 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:43-48 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room o...
Matthew 5:43 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:17 . Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testame...
Matthew 5:43 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Matthew 5:43 - The Biblical Illustrator

Love your enemies. Forgiveness of injuries The duty of forgiveness does not forbid resentment, but the excess or abuse of it. I. Such resentment in excess is wrong, for anger produces anger;...
Matthew 5:43 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Matthew 5:43 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. The first injunction is found in the Law, Leviticus 19:18 . The second part of the sentence is an additio...
Matthew 5:43 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 23:6 ; Deuteronomy 25:17 ; Exodus 17:14-16 ; Galatians 5:13 ; Galatians 5:14 ; James 2:8 ; Leviticus 19:18 ; Luke 10:27-29 ; Mark 12:31-34 ; Matthew 19:19 ; Matthew 22:39 ; Ma...
Matthew 5:43 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is o...
Matthew 5:43 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thou shalt love thy neighbour; And hate thy enemy — God spoke the former part; the scribes added the latter. Leviticus 19:18 .

Matthew 5:43 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:43 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:43 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:43 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:43 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:43 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:43 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:43 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 5:43 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:43 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:43 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:43 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes