Understanding the Biblical Concept of 'Love Your Enemies' Loving our enemies is a foreign concept. Love and enemies are words that seem mutually exclusive. Putting the two together raises questions. When the Bible tells us to love our enemies what does that mean? Who said it? Why? How?
But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who ...
Discusses Jesus' commandment that Christians love their enemies. Definition of enemy; Praying for God's help in loving enemies.ForestJ.U
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. Jesus Christ We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war… The more we...
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Love for Enemies 27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not wit...
Jesus added, "Love your enemies" (Matthew 5:44). The U.S. spends a trillion dollars a year on death and destruction. What if we gave that money to our enemies and increased their standard of living? Would we be more in danger, or would that make it less likely that our enemies ...
Ironically, the very Jesus most Republicans claim to serve and the Bible they love to quote have a lot to say about violence that, apparently, Republicans have developed a special gift for ignoring. “He [Messiah] was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, thou...
love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and ...
They also say the NT books such as Matthew and Luke that quote Psalm 91 for Jesus both claim that Jesus was killed on the cross. Response: Psalm 91:14-16But refute this: 14 Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.15 ...