5 ⁴³ 'You have learned that they were told, "Love your neighbour, hate your enemy." 5 ⁴⁴ But what I tell you is this: Love your enemies Some witnesses insert: bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you. and pray for your persecutors; Some witnesses insert: and those who treat you spitefully. 5 ⁴⁵ only so can you be children of your heavenly Father, who makes his sun rise on good and bad alike, and sends the rain on the honest and the dishonest. 5 ⁴⁶ If you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Surely the tax-gatherers do as much as that. 5 ⁴⁷ And if you greet only your brothers, what is there extraordinary about that? Even the heathen do as much. 5 ⁴⁸ You must therefore be all goodness, just as your heavenly Father is all good.