Luke 6:27-30

Love Your Enemies

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.

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.