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...which is why I call it basically a Rorschach blot in literary form - whatever ethics you wish to seek in there, you can find. I would think that most people come to this stuff via their own moral and ethical system and cherry pick the parts that fit that bias and make it fit.
All my life, I've run into the kind of religious zealots that would insist that "you cannot have ethics without [their] god and [their] religion" - and I've always found this so absurdly and painfully naive. You can tell these sort have had next to no introduction to anything philosophical, except as through an explicit filter provided by their equally zealous parents or pastor or whatever.
Robert Anton Wilson would often say something like "What the Thinker Thinks, The Prover Proves" and when it comes to varying sects of xtianity and where they lie on the ideological and moral spectrum, you can see this in action.
The "red letter xtians" or people like Thomas Jefferson can read most of what Jesus says and find their value system there. The assholes that believe in Supply Side Jesus and/or a "muscular xtianity" can ignore most of what Jesus actually says in the NT and prefer most of Paul and the uglier things in the OT for their system of belief.