30 Bible Verses about Loving Your Enemies

But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.

Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you.

Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God.

Praise them driving you out: praise ye, and curse not. To rejoice with the rejoicing, and weep with the weeping. Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.read more.
Giving hack evil for evil to none. Providing good things before all men. If possible of you, living peaceably with all men. Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord. If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

If thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he thirst, give him water to drink: For thou tookest up coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will recompense to thee.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil.

If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.

Let all things be in love.

Little children, yet a little am I with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said to the Jews, That where I retire, ye cannot come; and I say to you now. A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another. In this all shall know that ye are disciples to me, if ye have love in one another.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.read more.
Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil; Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth; Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. ' Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed.

Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good. In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another. In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;

Happy the pure in heart: tor they shall see God. Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God. Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.read more.
Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake. Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.

Thou shalt not say, I will requite evil; wait for Jehovah, he will save to thee.

But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved.

And he said to them, Having gone, say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons, and complete cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I am completed. But I must go to day and to morrow and the following: for it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!read more.
Behold, your house is left to you a desert: and truly I say to you, That ye should not see me, until it should come when ye say, Praised he coming in the name of the Lord.

And having turned towards them Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never brought forth, and the breasts which gave not suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us; and to the hills, Cover us.read more.
For if they do these in the moist tree, what should be in the dry And two others who were led, evil doers, to be lifted up with him. And when they came to the place called Kranium, there they crucified him, and the evil doers, truly one from the right, and one from the left. And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots. And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also who with them were deriding, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he is Christ, the chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, approaching, and bringing him vinegar. And saying, If thou art king of the Jews, save thyself.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers: Who have received the law by the regulations of messengers, and ye watched not. And having heard those, they were sawn through their hearts, and they gnashed the teeth upon him.read more.
And being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked intently to heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. And having cried with a great voice, they held fast their ears, and rushed unanimously upon him, And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And having set the knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest thou not set this sin to them. And having said this he was set to sleep.

In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult: Lest Jehovah shall see and it be evil in his eyes, and he turn back from him his anger. Thou shalt not be angry against the evil; thou shalt not envy against the unjust:read more.
For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished.

And thou shalt not look upon thy brother in the day of his calamity, and thou shalt not rejoice to the sons of Judah in the day of their perishing, and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of straits. Thou shalt not come in to the gate of my people in the day of their misfortune; also thou shalt not look upon his evil in the day of his misfortune, and thou shalt not stretch forth upon his wealth in the day of his misfortune

If I shall rejoice in the destruction of him hating me, and I exalted when evil found him: And I gave not my palate to sin to ask in cursing his soul.

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old?

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth. For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.read more.
When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.

The slow to anger of much understanding: and the short of spirit exalts folly.

Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience. And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.read more.
If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out. So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust.read more.
For if ye love them loving you, what reward. have you? do not also the tax collectors the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye above ordinary? and do not the tax collectors the same? Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.

But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you, Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you. To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat.read more.
And to every one asking thee, do thou give; and from him taking away thy things, re-demand not. And as ye wish that men would do to you, and do you to them likewise. And if ye love them loving you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful would love those loving them. And if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful do the same. And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace is to you? for also the sinful lend to the sinful, that they might receive back the like things. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil. Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.