But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

Exodus 23:4,5 If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him. . . .

2 Kings 6:22 And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2 Chronicles 28:9-15 At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven. . . .

Psalm 7:4 If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.

Psalm 35:13,14 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom. . . .

Proverbs 25:21,22 If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink: . . .

Luke 6:27,28,34,35 But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you. . . .

Luke 23:34 And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.

Acts 7:60 And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

Romans 12:14,20,21 Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:12,13 And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it. . . .

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up, . . .

1 Peter 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.