11 Best Bible Verses About Loving Your Enemies

Update on by Pastor Jack Wellman

It’s hard enough to love people around us, but it’s even more difficult to love our enemies, but that’s what Jesus told us to do, so here are 11 of the best Bible verses about loving your enemies.

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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
- Luke 6:35
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For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
- Romans 5:10
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
- Matthew 5:9
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Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
- Proverbs 10:12
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If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
- Proverbs 25:21-22
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To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
- Romans 12:20
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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
- Matthew 5:44-45
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“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
- Matthew 7:12
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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
- John 13:34-35
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But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27-28
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We love because he first loved us.
- 1 John 4:19
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Total Quotes Found: 11

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