Matthew 5:44

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. ⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

But I Say to You

Do Good

Love Your Enemies

Pray for

Your Enemy

Luke 23:34

[Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.”] And they divided His clothes and cast lots.

Luke 6:27-28

“But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,

Acts 7:60

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin!” And saying this, he fell asleep.

Romans 12:14

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

1 Peter 3:9

not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.

Psalm 7:4

if I have done harm to one at peace with me
or have plundered my adversary without cause,

Romans 12:20-21

But

If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
For in so doing
you will be heaping fiery coals on his head.

1 Peter 2:23

when He was reviled,
He did not revile in return;
when He was suffering,
He did not threaten
but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.

Exodus 23:4-5

“If you come across your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

2 Kings 6:22

Elisha replied, “Don’t kill them. Do you kill those you have captured with your sword or your bow? Set food and water in front of them so they can eat and drink and go to their master.”

Psalm 35:13-14

Yet when they were sick,
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.

Proverbs 25:21-22

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

Luke 6:34-35

And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to be repaid in full.

1 Corinthians 4:12-13

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

2 Chronicles 28:9-15

A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of His wrath against Judah, but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven.