Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

General references

Bible References

Love

Luke 6:27
But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,
Romans 5:8
But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.

And ye

Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,
John 13:35
By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."
John 15:8
By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.
1 John 3:10
This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.
1 John 4:7
Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

General references

Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,
Luke 6:34
And if you ever lend to people expecting to get it back, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice lending to one another, expecting to get it back in full.