Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:43 You have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
[2] The value of the human soul is based upon the price paid for our redemption, and therefore, in our treatment of strangers and foreigners, Christians are to consider that Jesus died for them. They are not things, they are people…. Romans 5: 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[15 LTMS LT 27, par 7] The value of one human soul is more than the value of the whole world…. [3] One Race is not of more value in the sight of God than another. This particular error God corrected at the time He gave Peter the vision of unclean beasts. At the foot of the cross, all human beings stand on a level playing field.
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, You are the sons of the living God.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!