he says to love your enemies and that is true righteousness but he directly quotes from the story of saul and david elsewhere that is where he is drawing his conclusions from about loving your enemies, saul becomes jealous of david and tries to kill him, chasing him across the countryside, but he gets tired and stops in a cave to refresh himself, david creeps up alone on saul and steals a piece of his clothing so he can prove after he sneaks out that he could have killed saul but chose to spare his life, upon this revelation saul falls to his face and says "you have repayed my evil with good" this is the righteousness jesus refers to but david hated the enemies of god, and killed tens of thousands of them all these killings were counted unto david as righteousness and he was said to have been a man after gods own heart in all ways (so including the thousands of philistines he killed) except in the manner of the slaying of uriah the hittite which the bible specifies, and thats because uriah was his enemy not gods because david wanted to bang his wife. elsewhere jesus says but as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence in luke 19:27 go ahead and look up the context its clear what hes saying and david a man after gods own heart who jesus used as his example to demonstrate this righteousness of loving your enemy said in the psalms 9 surely thou wilt slay the wicked, o god: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. 20 for they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. 21 do not i hate them, o lord, that hate thee? and am not i grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 i hate them with perfect hatred: i count them mine enemies. 23 search me, o god, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. we are to love and forgive our kindred in error a thousand time.
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