Mt 5:43-48

Love of Enemies.^* 43^b “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’^c 44But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. 46For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors^* do the same? 47And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?^* 48So be perfect,^* just as your heavenly Father is perfect.^d