6:27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, ¹  do good to those who hate you, 6:28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat ²  you. 6:29 To the person who strikes you on the cheek, ³  offer the other as well, ⁴  and from the person who takes away your coat, ⁵  do not withhold your tunic ⁶  either. ⁷  6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, ⁸  and do not ask for your possessions ⁹  back ¹⁰  from the person who takes them away. 6:31 Treat others ¹¹  in the same way that you would want them to treat you. ¹² 

6:32 “If ¹³  you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners ¹⁴  love those who love them. ¹⁵  6:33 And ¹⁶  if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ¹⁷  sinners ¹⁸  do the same. 6:34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to be repaid, ¹⁹  what credit is that to you? Even sinners ²⁰  lend to sinners, so that they may be repaid in full. ²¹  6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. ²²  Then ²³  your reward will be great, and you will be sons ²⁴  of the Most High, ²⁵  because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people. ²⁶  6:36 Be merciful, ²⁷  just as your Father is merciful.

6:37 “Do ²⁸  not judge, ²⁹  and you will not be judged; ³⁰  do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, ³¹  and you will be forgiven. 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, ³²  will be poured ³³  into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.” ³⁴ 

16:1 Now Sarai, ¹  Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, ²  but she had an Egyptian servant ³  named Hagar. ⁴  16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Since ⁵  the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with ⁶  my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” ⁷  Abram did what ⁸  Sarai told him.

16:3 So after Abram had lived ⁹  in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, ¹⁰  to her husband to be his wife. ¹¹  16:4 He had sexual relations with ¹²  Hagar, and she became pregnant. ¹³  Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai. ¹⁴  16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! ¹⁵  I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, ¹⁶  but when she realized ¹⁷  that she was pregnant, she despised me. ¹⁸  May the Lord judge between you and me!” ¹⁹ 

16:6 Abram said to Sarai, “Since your ²⁰  servant is under your authority, ²¹  do to her whatever you think best.” ²²  Then Sarai treated Hagar ²³  harshly, ²⁴  so she ran away from Sarai. ²⁵ 

16:7 The Lord’s angel ²⁶  found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur. ²⁷  16:8 He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from ²⁸  my mistress, Sarai.”

16:9 Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit ²⁹  to her authority. 16:10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, ³⁰  “so that they will be too numerous to count.” ³¹  16:11 Then the Lord’s angel said to her,

“You are now ³²  pregnant

and are about to give birth ³³  to a son.

You are to name him Ishmael, ³⁴ 

for the Lord has heard your painful groans. ³⁵ 

16:12 He will be a wild donkey ³⁶  of a man.

He will be hostile to everyone, ³⁷ 

and everyone will be hostile to him. ³⁸ 

He will live away from ³⁹  his brothers.”

16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” ⁴⁰  for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” ⁴¹