Matthew5:43
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You have heard that it was said, You will love
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Paraphrase
You know that the following has been passed down for a very long time: this is the way things are folks – you will love your neighbor because it gets ugly if you don’t, but you’re gonna hate your enemy, and that’s OK.
Footnotes
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The verbs in this verse are both future verbs (you will do this because it is normal and predictable), therefore they do not carry the force of a command verb (“you must”). What they had heard from long ago was not a command in this case, but a simple statement of fact.