Hating Your Enemy

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! — read the full passage →

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. — read the full passage →

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; — read the full passage →

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.