Matthew 5:44

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴³ Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. ⁴⁴ 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. ⁴⁵ 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.

But I Say to You

Do Good

Love Your Enemies

Pray for

Your Enemy

Luke 23:34

And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.

Luke 6:27-28

But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you,

Acts 7:60

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.

Romans 12:14

Praise them driving you out: praise ye, and curse not.

1 Peter 3:9

Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise.

Psalm 7:4

If I rewarded evil him being at peace with me; (and I will deliver mine enemy undeservedly:)

Romans 12:20-21

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.

1 Peter 2:23

Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

Exodus 23:4-5

If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him.

2 Kings 6:22

And he will say, Thou shalt not strike: whom thou tookest captive with thy sword and with thy bow; strikest thou? set bread and water before them, and they shall eat and drink and go to their lord.

Psalm 35:13-14

And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.

Proverbs 25:21-22

If thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Luke 6:34-35

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.

1 Corinthians 4:12-13

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

2 Chronicles 28:9-15

And a prophet to Jehovah was there, Oded his name: and he will go forth before the army coming to Shomeron, and say to them, Behold, in the anger of Jehovah the God of your fathers upon Judah he gave them into your hand, and ye will slay among them in wrath reaching even to the heavens