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Exodus 23:4-5

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23:4 “If you encounter 1  your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return 2  it to him. 23:5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, 3  but be sure to help 4  him with it. 5 

Matthew 5:43-44

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Love for Enemies

5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor 6  and ‘hate your enemy.’ 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemy and 7  pray for those who persecute you,

Romans 12:14

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12:14 Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

Romans 12:1

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Consecration of the Believer’s Life

12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 8  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 9  – which is your reasonable service.

Romans 2:22-23

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2:22 You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor 10  idols, do you rob temples? 2:23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

Romans 3:9

Context
The Condemnation of the World

3:9 What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

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[23:4]  1 tn Heb “meet” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[23:4]  2 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense (taken here as an obligatory imperfect) and the infinitive absolute for emphasis.

[23:5]  3 tn The line reads “you will cease to forsake him” – refrain from leaving your enemy without help.

[23:5]  4 tn The law is emphatic here as well, using the infinitive absolute and the imperfect of instruction (or possibly obligation). There is also a wordplay here: two words עָזַב (’azav) are used, one meaning “forsake” and the other possibly meaning “arrange” based on Arabic and Ugaritic evidence (see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 297-98).

[23:5]  5 sn See H. B. Huffmon, “Exodus 23:4-5: A Comparative Study,” A Light Unto My Path, 271-78.

[5:43]  6 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.

[5:44]  7 tc Most mss ([D] L [W] Θ Ë13 33 Ï lat) read “bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you,” before “those who persecute you.” But this is surely a motivated reading, importing the longer form of this aphorism from Luke 6:27-28. The shorter text is found in א B Ë1 pc sa, as well as several fathers and versional witnesses.

[12:1]  8 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[12:1]  9 tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.

[2:22]  10 tn Or “detest.”



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