10 Bible Verses About Loving Your Enemies

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. - Matthew 5:43-45

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. - Luke 6:27-28

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. - Matthew 5:11-12

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. - Matthew 7:12

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. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. - Proverbs 16:7

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you. - Proverbs 20:22

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles. - Proverbs 24:17

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. - Proverbs 25:21-22

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. - 1 John 4:7