Matthew 5:44 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; ”

Matthew 5:44 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Love your enemies - There are two kinds of love, involving the same general feeling, or springing from the same fountain of good-will to all mankind, but differing so far as to admit of separatio...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

bless them... hate you . This clause is omitted by all the critical Greek texts. See App-94. pray. Greek. proseuchomai. App-134. for . on behalf of. Greek. huper.
Matthew 5:44 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

44. Love your enemies. This single point includes the whole of the former doctrine: for he who shall bring his mind to love those who hate him, will naturally refrain from all revenge, will...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Love your enemies - This is the most...
Matthew 5:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Which despitefully use you, &c.— Who falsely accuse or traduce you, and persecute you. Dr. Doddridge renders it, Who insult you and persecute you. The particulars mentioned in this verse,...
Matthew 5:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; But I say unto you, Love your...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. — The latter words are omitted in so many of the most ancient MSS. that most recent editors hold that they were inserted in the fourth or f...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS ENEMIES ‘I say unto you, Love your enemies.’ Matthew 5:44 It is one of the signs of the Divine originality of Christ that in the midst of a condition of society which t...
Matthew 5:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But I say unto you, love your enemies ,.... That is, as the Apostle Paul may be thought to interpret the words of Christ, Romans 12:20 . "If thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him dr...
Matthew 5:44 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Ver. 44. But I say unto you, Love...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1. Of not seeking unlawful private revenge. Bless them that curse you: do not return revilin
Matthew 5:44 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Disciples Are To Love Even Their Enemies And Are To Seek To Be Perfect Even As Their Father in Heaven Is Perfect (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the lo...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - 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 5:44 - The Biblical Illustrator

But I say unto you. The imperatives of Jesus I. The range and extent of Jesus’ imperative speeches. He keeps up to His own superior level of command upon all occasions and before all men. Men l...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Final illustration, from the general law of love:
Matthew 5:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ; 1 Corinthians 4:12 ; 1 Corinthians 4:13 ; 1 Peter 2:23 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; 2 Chronicles 28:9-15 ; 2 Kings 6:22 ; Acts 7:60 ; Exodus 23:4 ; Exodus 23:5 ; Luke 23:34 ; Lu...
Matthew 5:44 - 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 5:44 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bless them that curse you — Speak all the good you can to and of them, who speak all evil to and of you. Repay love in thought, word, and deed, to those who hate you, and show it both in word and d...

Matthew 5:44 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:44 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:44 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:44 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:44 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:44 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 5:44 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:44 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:44 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes