Matthew 5:44

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴³ Ye have heard, that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. ⁴⁴ But, I, say unto you, Be loving your enemies, and praying for them who are persecuting you: ⁴⁵ That ye may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because, his sun, he maketh arise on evil and good, and sendeth rain, on just and unjust.

But I Say to You

Do Good

Love Your Enemies

Pray for

Your Enemy

Luke 23:34

And, when they were parting his garments, they cast lots.

Luke 6:27-28

But, unto you, I say, who are hearkening: Be loving your enemies; be doing, good, unto them that hate you;

Acts 7:60

And, kneeling down, he cried out with a loud voice - Lord! do not charge against them, this sin. And, having said this, he fell asleep.

Romans 12:14

Bless them that persecute, bless, and do not curse.

1 Peter 3:9

Not returning evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the contrary, bestowing a blessing, - because, hereunto, have ye been called, in order that, a blessing, ye might inherit.

Psalm 7:4

If I have requited my friend with wrong, - or have oppressed mine adversary without need,

Romans 12:20-21

But - if thine enemy hunger, be feeding him, if he thirst, be giving him drink; for, this doing, coals of fire, shalt thou heap upon his head.

1 Peter 2:23

Who, being reviled, was not reviling again, suffering, he was not threatening, but was making surrender unto him that judgeth righteously, -

Exodus 23:4-5

When thou meetest the ox of thine enemy, or his ass, going astray, thou shalt, surely bring it back, to him.

2 Kings 6:22

And he said - Thou shalt not smite. Them whom thou hadst taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow, wouldst, thou, have been smiting? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go their way unto their lord.

Psalm 35:13-14

But, as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I humbled, with fasting, my soul, though, my prayer, unto mine own bosom, might return:

Proverbs 25:21-22

If he that hateth thee hunger, give him bread to eat, and, if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

Luke 6:34-35

And, if ye lend to them from whom ye are hoping to receive, what sort of thanks are there for you? Even sinners, unto sinners, do lend, that they may receive back, as much.

1 Corinthians 4:12-13

And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

2 Chronicles 28:9-15

But, in that place, was a prophet unto Yahweh, Oded his name, so he went out to meet the host that was coming unto Samaria, and said unto them, Lo! in the wrath of Yahweh, God of your fathers, against Judah, hath he delivered them into your hand, - and ye have slain them in a rage, until, to the heavens, it hath reached.