Enemy

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

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This <FI>is<Fi> the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face. — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate. — read the full passage →

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth. — read the full passage →

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death, — read the full passage →

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

the last enemy is done away--death;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste. — read the full passage →

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me? — read the full passage →

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

`When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations: — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; — read the full passage →

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. — read the full passage →

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all; — read the full passage →

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil. — read the full passage →

Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it. — read the full passage →

God! Perfect <FI>is<Fi> His way, The saying of Jehovah is tried, A shield He <FI>is<Fi> to all those trusting in Him. — read the full passage →

`Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee--smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?' — read the full passage →

for the weapons of our warfare <FI>are<Fi> not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered--in the beginning. — read the full passage →

for I do certainly deliver thee, and by sword thou fallest not, and thy life hath been to thee for a spoil, for thou hast trusted in Me--an affirmation of Jehovah.'

Lo, he doth diligently assemble without My desire, Who hath assembled near thee? By thee he falleth! — read the full passage →

In the transgression of the evil <FI>is<Fi> a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice. — read the full passage →

The house of the wicked is destroyed, And the tent of the upright flourisheth. — read the full passage →

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood. — read the full passage →

Righteousness and judgment <FI>Are<Fi> the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.

Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one. — read the full passage →

Only--goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling <FI>is<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

`No man doth station himself before thee all days of thy life; as I have been with Moses, I am with thee, I do not fail thee, nor forsake thee; — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, — read the full passage →

`For which <FI>is<Fi> the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him? — read the full passage →

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things <FI>are<Fi> naked and open to His eyes--with whom is our reckoning. — read the full passage →

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful; — read the full passage →

Ho, Zion, be delivered who art dwelling <FI>with<Fi> the daughter of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat. — read the full passage →

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high. — read the full passage →

The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death. — read the full passage →

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.