Love Your Enemies

Luke 6

27 "But I say to you who hear, s Love your enemies, t do good to those who hate you, 28 u bless those who curse you, s pray for those who abuse you. 29 v To one who w strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic 1 either. 30 x Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 31 And y as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

32 z "If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And a if you b lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 35 But c love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and d you will be sons of e the Most High, for f he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 36 g Be merciful, even as h your Father is merciful.

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 5:44
    But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
  2. Cross References
    Proverbs 25:21 - 22
    If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
    Romans 12:20 - 21
    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.
  3. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:9
    Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
  4. Cross References
    Luke 6:27
    But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
  5. Cross References
    Luke 6:29 - 30
    To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.
    Matthew 5:39 - 42
    But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
    Romans 12:17
    Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 50:6
    I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.
    Lamentations 3:30
    Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.
    Matthew 26:67
    Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him.
  7. Cross References
    Luke 6:29 - 30
    To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.
    Matthew 5:39 - 42
    But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 37:21
    The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives.
    Proverbs 21:26
    All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
  9. Cross References
    Matthew 7:12
    So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
  10. Cross References
    Matthew 5:46
    For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
  11. Cross References
    Luke 14:12 - 14
    He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.
    Proverbs 19:17
    Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
    Matthew 5:42
    Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 37:26
    He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
  13. Cross References
    Luke 6:27
    But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
  14. Cross References
    Matthew 5:45
    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.
  15. Cross References
    Luke 1:32
    He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
    Mark 5:7
    And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.
  16. Cross References
    James 1:5
    If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
  17. Cross References
    Matthew 5:7
    Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
    Matthew 5:48
    You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
    Ephesians 5:1 - 2
    Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
    James 3:17
    But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
  18. Cross References
    James 5:11
    Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
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