Excerpt from Matthew Poole's Bible Commentary
- They render evil for good; they hate and persecute me, not only without any injury or provocation on my part, but as it were in requital, or in return*, for the good which I have done to them.
- Because I follow the thing that good is; because I love and diligently practice justice and godliness, which they hate, and which they take to be a reproach to them, and which I did exercise, as I had opportunity, in the punishment of such as they are.
- Compare John 15:19 and 1 John 3:12.
*added by me to make the meaning clearer
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