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Love for Enemies
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
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But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
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But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
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“‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
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and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
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“‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
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David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
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salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us—
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to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear
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Love for Enemies
“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
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But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
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I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
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But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”
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The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
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until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
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That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.
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until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
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“You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
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For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
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As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,
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On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
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For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
