Matthew 5:44 (BSB)

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

From Matthew 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Matthew 5:44

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Matthew 5:44: 44. Love your enemies. This single point includes the whole of the former doctrine: for he who shall bring his mind to love those who hate him, will naturally refrain from all revenge, will patiently endure evils, will be much more prone to assist the wretched.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Matthew 5:43-48: We have here, lastly, an exposition of that great fundamental law of the second table, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, which was the fulfilling of the law. I. See here how this law was corrupted by the comments of the Jewish teachers, Mat 5:43.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Matthew 5:44: But I say unto you, love your enemies,.... That is, as the Apostle Paul may be thought to interpret the words of Christ, Rom 12:20. "If thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him drink": unless our Lord should be supposed rather to regard the internal affection of the mind; since outward expressions of love, by words and works, are urged in the...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Matthew 5:44: Verse 44. Love your enemies. There are two kinds of love, involving the same general feeling, or springing from the same fountain of goodwill to all mankind, but differing still so far as to admit of separation in idea. The one is that feeling by which we approve of the conduct of another, commonly called the love of complacency; the other, by which we wish...