Matthew 5:44

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴³ 'Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; ⁴⁴ but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you, ⁴⁵ that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

But I Say to You

Do Good

Love Your Enemies

Pray for

Your Enemy

Luke 23:34

And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

Luke 6:27-28

'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

Acts 7:60

and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

Romans 12:14

Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

1 Peter 3:9

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

Psalm 7:4

If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

Romans 12:20-21

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

1 Peter 2:23

who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

Exodus 23:4-5

'When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

2 Kings 6:22

And he saith, 'Thou dost not smite; those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow art thou smiting? set bread and water before them, and they eat, and drink, and go unto their lord.'

Psalm 35:13-14

And I -- in their sickness my clothing is sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.

Proverbs 25:21-22

If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.

Luke 6:34-35

and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners -- that they may receive again as much.

1 Corinthians 4:12-13

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

2 Chronicles 28:9-15

And there hath been there a prophet of Jehovah (Oded is his name), and he goeth out before the host that hath come in to Samaria, and saith to them, 'Lo, in the fury of Jehovah God of your fathers against Judah, He hath given them into your hand, and ye slay among them in rage -- unto the heavens it hath come;