Love Severe in Order to Salvation
Matthew 5:43
You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.


The mother, under ordinary circumstances, is unwilling to singe the child's hair or scourge its skin, because she loves it so, yet, if there is some conflagration, and she sees that the way of life is through the flame, with wild strength she bears the child through in her bosom, though it be burned in every part. Such is her love for the child that she would rather see it wounded than see it perish.

(Beecher.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

WEB: "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'




Love is Sometimes Severe in its Methods
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