Jesus keeps insisting that his followers must accept the Law and go deeper than the Law requires. We must love our enemies and all those who have hurt us because God loves the bad as well as the good. Jesus concludes "So be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mattthew 5:38-48.) In the Jewish Scriptures "The Lord said to Moses, 'Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them: be holy for I the Lord your God am holy'" (Leviticus 19:1-2.)
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