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→‎Chapter 6: ἀγαθοποιέω has an archaic translation of "do good," but its real meaning without resorting to secularized language is "do God's work"
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|But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
 
|But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
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|Instead love the outcasts, do good, and be charitable, and you shall obtain a great reward, and become sons of God, because He is kind even to the ungrateful and the downtrodden.  
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|Instead love the outcasts, do God's work, and be charitable, and you shall obtain a great reward, and become sons of God, because He is kind even to the ungrateful and the downtrodden.  
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|ἐχθρός: the "hated" or "odious"; best translated as "outcasts" rather than as "enemies"; "charitable" includes the concept of "expecting nothing in return"' πονηρός: seems to mean downtrodden here, not "evil ones"; note that the NASB is more masculine than the KJV here (sons rather than children)
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|ἐχθρός: the "hated" or "odious"; best translated as "outcasts" rather than as "enemies"; "charitable" includes the concept of "expecting nothing in return"' πονηρός: seems to mean downtrodden here, not "evil ones"; note that the NASB is more masculine than the KJV here (sons rather than children); ἀγαθοποιέω has an archaic translation of "do good," but its real meaning without resorting to [[secularized language]] is "do God's work"
 
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