Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Matthew 5:43-45

You heard, because it has been said, “You will greet with affection your near one, also you will not put up with the one alienated from you.”

But I, I am saying to you, “You must entreat the ones hateful to you, even you yourselves must offer prayers on behalf of the ones driving you away. (Just as you yourselves came to be sons of your Father, the One in exalted places, in that the light originates from Him, as regards worthless ones and capable ones, even it is bathing righteous ones and unrighteous ones. For if haply you might have welcomed affectionately those affectionately welcoming you, what recompenses are withheld you, even the custom collectors this thing itself they are doing. And if you yourselves might have kissed and embraced your kinsmen above all others, what beyond the ordinary you are doing? Not even the outsiders are doing this thing.) You yourselves will then exist, you, fully without spot or blemish as your Father the Exalted One is fully without spot or blemish.” (JWET)

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