What Does the Bible Say About Love Enemy?

Romans 12:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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.

Romans 12:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Luke 6:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

John 10:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

1 Corinthians 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

Romans 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

John 17:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Luke 18:10-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

21 Bible Verses about Love Enemy

Romans 12:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Romans 12:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Luke 6:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 6:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 6:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 18:10-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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21 Bible Verses about Love Enemy

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Romans 12:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Romans 12:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Luke 6:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 6:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 6:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 18:10-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote