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I'll take a shot at this...

Matthew 5:44 NAS
"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

The Ryrie study Bible footnote says:
5:44 A new teaching, found nowhere in the OT.

Well yeah a new teaching for them....

BUT

2 Peter 3:17 KJ
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Psalm:1 NIV
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.

NIV Bible footnote says:
Speaks progressively of association with the ungodly and participation in their ungodly ways.

I heard a sermon once on this.
The preacher said something like, "Notice the man at first just walks by. Then he stops and stands. He's hanging with them now. Then before long he's sitting down with them and mocking."

True. I've seen it. fwiw

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