Matthew 5:44
Neutral key: nrf1:MAT.005.044
About the book Matthew Trend of this verse since 2000
Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Text: World English Bible (Classic, with deuterocanon). The World English Bible is in the Public Domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org.. Licence: Public domain (World English Bible). Source: eBible.org eng-web USFM. Footnotes and cross references are left out; the rights holder has not reviewed or endorsed this display.
Statistics
- 31 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 31 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #226 Rank Rank 226 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 23,403 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
31 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
- Jesusvia pronoun
"Via pronoun": the verse does not name the person but refers to them, for example with "he" or "her"; the link comes from the grammatical analysis of the Hebrew or Greek text.
Topics of this verse
- Intercession
- Hurt feelings
- Prayer
- Strangers
- Loving each other
- Loving others
- Warriors
- Burden
- Insults
- The sword of the spirit
The strongest topics first, by the votes of the OpenBible.info readers.2 more topics are not shown.
Persons: STEPBible TIPNR and MACULA; topics: OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Sources and credits
Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive: 9 occurrences
- Vers of the Day Website Data: 8 occurrences
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 7 occurrences
- losung.net: Losungen archive: 6 occurrences
- Die Losungen (official yearly files): 1 occurrence
Occurrences
31 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Aug 13, 2026
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 8, 2026
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Sep 3, 2025
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44-45
- Source
- Die Losungen (official yearly files), Die Losungen 2025 (Jahresdatei der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität)
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2025-09-03
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Translation
- Lutherbibel 2017
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 15, 2025
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 13, 2024
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Aug 15, 2023
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44-45
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Dienstag, 15. August 2023
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2023-08-15
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 12, 2023
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Aug 4, 2022
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 8, 2022
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Jun 30, 2021
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Jun 19, 2020
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Mar 8, 2020
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44-45
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Sonntag, 8. März 2020
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2020-03-08
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Aug 8, 2019
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Jun 12, 2018
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:44
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- May 14, 2018
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44-45
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Montag, 14. Mai 2018
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2018-05-14
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Feb 8, 2018
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 8, 2014
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 8, 2010
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Feb 8, 2006
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Dec 10, 2003
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2003-12-10
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Feb 17, 2002
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44-45
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Sonntag, 17. Februar 2002
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2002-02-17
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Feb 8, 2002
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Oct 17, 2000
- Cited as
- Matthäus 5,44-45
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2000
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2000-10-17
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Feb 8, 1998
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-45
- Source
- Vers of the Day Website Data, Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Jan 1, 1055 – Dec 31, 1126
- Cited as
- Matthew 5:43-44
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Theophylact of Ohrid
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 100
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 100, published Nov 4, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. This page shows no Bible text. How we count