bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
“Thus says the Lord God: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,
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