New Revised Standard Version
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

Contemporary English Version
Ask God to bless everyone who mistreats you. Ask him to bless them and not to curse them.

New American Bible
Bless those who persecute [you], bless and do not curse them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Romans 12:21 Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.

Job 31:29,30 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. . . .

Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

Luke 6:28 Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate 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.

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 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

1 Peter 2:21-23 For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. . . .

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.