Love Your Enemies

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

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

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.

For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say unto you. — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected. — read the full passage →

And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. — read the full passage →

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers; — read the full passage →

But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

We love, because he first loved us.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.

And when they came unto the place which is called The skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. — read the full passage →

For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly. — read the full passage →

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: — read the full passage →

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;