20 Bible Verses about

Love Your Enemies

Matthew 5:44 BSB

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Luke 6:27 BSB

But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Luke 6:35 BSB

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Psalm 18:1 BSB

For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

Judges 5:31 BSB

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

John 15:17 BSB

This is My command to you: Love one another.

John 14:15 BSB

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Psalm 119:163 BSB

I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.

Proverbs 27:5 BSB

Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.

Psalm 109:5 BSB

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Matthew 22:39 BSB

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

1 John 4:8 BSB

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Ephesians 4:32 BSB

Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

1 Corinthians 13:4 BSB

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Colossians 3:13 BSB

Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

1 Corinthians 13:13 BSB

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

1 John 4:7 BSB

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

John 13:34 BSB

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

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