Bible verses about "enemies" | JuliaSmith

¹⁴ Jehovah will wage war for you and ye shall be silent

¹ To David. Thou shalt not be angry at those doing evil, and thou shalt not envy those working iniquity. ² For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away. ³ Trust in Jehovah and do good; dwell in the land and be fed with faithfulness. ⁴ And delight thyself upon Jehovah, and he shall give to thee the petitions of thy heart ⁵ Roll thy way upon Jehovah, and trust upon him, and he will work.

¹⁰ For mine enemies said to me, and they watching my soul took counsel together,

⁷ The ways of a man being accepted of Jehovah also he will make his enemies friends with him.

¹ To David. Contend, O Jehovah, with them contending with me: fight with those fighting with me. ² Take hold of the shield and the buckler, and stand up for my help. ³ Draw out the spear, and shut up to the meeting of them pursuing me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation. ⁴ They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil ⁵ They shall be as chaff before the wind: and the messenger of Jehovah overthrowing. ⁶ Their way shall be darkness and slippery places, and the messenger of Jehovah pursuing them. ⁷ For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul. ⁸ Desolation shall come to him not knowing, and his net which he hid shall take him: in destruction he shall fall in it ⁹ And my soul shall rejoice in Jehovah: it shall be glad in his salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, O Jehovah, who as thee, delivering the poor from him strong above him, and the poor and the needy from him stripping him? ¹¹ Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not. ¹² They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul ¹³ And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom. ¹⁴ As a friend, as a brother to me: I went about as mourning a mother: being darkened, I bowed down. ¹⁵ And in my halting they rejoiced, and they were gathered together: they smiting were gathered together against me, and I knew not; they rent asunder and ceased not: ¹⁶ With profane mocking parasites, gnashing their teeth against me. ¹⁷ O Jehovah, how long wilt thou see? Turn back my soul from their destruction, my only one from the lions. ¹⁸ I will praise thee in the great convocation: I will celebrate thee among a strong people. ¹⁹ Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye. ²⁰ For they will not speak peace: and against the quiet of the land they will purpose words of deceits. ²¹ They will widen their mouth upon me: they said, Aha! aha our eye saw it. ²² Thou sawest, O Jehovah: thou wilt not be silent: O Jehovah, thou wilt not remove far off from me. ²³ Rouse up and awake to judgment, my God and my Lord, for my contention. ²⁴ Judge me according to thy justice, O Jehovah my God, and they shall not rejoice over me. ²⁵ They shall not say in their heart, Aha! our soul. They shall not say, We swallowed him down. ²⁶ They shall be ashamed and they shall blush together, rejoicing for my evil: they shall be clothed with shame and reproach, magnifying against me. ²⁷ Those delighting in my justice shall rejoice and be glad: they shall say always, Jehovah shall be magnified: he delighted in the peace of his servant ²⁸ My tongue shall speak of thy justice, thy praise all the day.

⁷ If I shall go in the midst of straits, thou wilt make me alive: against the anger of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand, and thy right hand shall save me.

⁴³ Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. ⁴⁴ But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out. ⁴⁵ So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust. ⁴⁶ For if ye love them loving you, what reward. have you? do not also the tax collectors the same? ⁴⁷ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye above ordinary? and do not the tax collectors the same? ⁴⁸ Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.

³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.

⁶ They prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bent down: they dug a pit before me, they fell into the midst of it. Silence.

²⁰ If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.

⁶ Be strong and be active; ye shall not fear, and ye shall not be terrified from their face, for Jehovah thy God, he goes with thee; he will not relax thee and he will not forsake thee.

¹⁷ In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:

¹⁴ Praise them driving you out: praise ye, and curse not.

² For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they eke with me the tongue of false-hood. ³ And with words of hatred they surrounded me, and they will war with me gratuitously. ⁴ For my love they will oppose me: and I for prayer. ⁵ And they will set against me evil instead of good, and hatred for my love.

²⁷ But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you, ²⁸ Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you. ²⁹ To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat. ³⁰ And to every one asking thee, do thou give; and from him taking away thy things, re-demand not. ³¹ And as ye wish that men would do to you, and do you to them likewise. ³² And if ye love them loving you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful would love those loving them. ³³ And if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful do the same. ³⁴ And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace is to you? for also the sinful lend to the sinful, that they might receive back the like things. ³⁵ But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil. ³⁶ Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.