FROM TODAY’S READING (4/13/2021)...
“Hate will hurt you more than the people you are directing it at, because hate eats you up from the inside. It’s a negative emotion that isn’t good to have. So, if anybody is hateful, I feel bad for them. I only really feel bad for them because that is no way to live.”
Shloime Malky
Hasidic (Jewish) community, Boro Park, NYC
Quote is an excerpt from video by Peter Santenello titled “What Hasidic Women Have To Say.”
Leviticus 19:17-18 (ESV) You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Matthew 5:43-47 (NLT) You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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