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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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“‘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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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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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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For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
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Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
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To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
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and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.
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but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
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If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
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Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
