Bible Verses about 'Love your enemies'
- But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- My times are in your hand;
deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors. - For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
- And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble. - For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
- The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
- Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your steadfast love. - You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
- He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
- He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
- You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother; also, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
- You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
- Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
- For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
- Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
- We love because he first loved us.
- Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world.
- So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. - The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
- Do not, O Lord, withhold
your mercy from me;
let your steadfast love and your faithfulness
keep me safe forever. - There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.
- For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens;
your faithfulness extends to the clouds. - Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness. - May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
- May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
- No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
- Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you. - Let all that you do be done in love.
- Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
- And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
- When I thought, “My foot is slipping,”
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. - Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
- Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for your goodness' sake, O Lord! - If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
- Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses. - So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being.
- Rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord, your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
and relents from punishing. - For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of your hands. - Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame. - Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good.
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