If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.