ENEMY

Passages on this topic · 73

• Exodus 23:5

  If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

• 2 Samuel 19:6

  in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

• 2 Samuel 19:12

  You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

• 2 Samuel 19:13

  Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”

• Job 31:29

  “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

• Job 31:30

  (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

• Psalms 35:1

  By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

• Psalms 35:2

  Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

• Psalms 35:3

  Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

• Psalms 35:4

  Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

• Psalms 35:5

  Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

• Psalms 35:6

  Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

• Psalms 35:7

  For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

• Psalms 35:8

  Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

• Psalms 35:9

  My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

• Psalms 35:10

  All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

• Psalms 35:11

  Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

• Psalms 35:12

  They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

• Psalms 35:13

  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

• Psalms 35:14

  I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

• Psalms 35:15

  But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

• Psalms 35:16

  Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

• Psalms 35:17

  Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

• Psalms 35:18

  I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

• Psalms 35:19

  Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

• Psalms 35:20

  For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

• Psalms 35:21

  Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

• Psalms 35:22

  You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

• Psalms 35:23

  Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

• Psalms 35:24

  Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

• Psalms 35:25

  Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

• Psalms 35:26

  Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

• Psalms 35:27

  Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, “Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

• Psalms 35:28

  My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.

• Psalms 56:5

  All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

• Psalms 57:4

  My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

• Psalms 57:6

  They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.

• Psalms 62:4

  They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

• Psalms 69:4

  Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

• Psalms 69:9

  For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

• Psalms 71:10

  For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

• Psalms 102:8

  My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

• Psalms 109:2

  for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

• Psalms 109:3

  They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

• Psalms 109:4

  In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

• Psalms 109:5

  They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

• Psalms 129:1

  A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

• Psalms 129:2

  many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

• Psalms 129:3

  The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

• Proverbs 24:17

  Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

• Proverbs 24:18

  lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

• Proverbs 25:21

  If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

• Proverbs 25:22

  for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

• Matthew 5:43

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

• Matthew 5:44

  But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

• Matthew 5:45

  that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 5:47

  If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 5:48

  Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

• Luke 6:27

  “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

• Luke 6:28

  bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

• Luke 6:29

  To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

• Luke 6:30

  Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

• Luke 6:31

  “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

• Luke 6:32

  If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

• Luke 6:33

  If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

• Luke 6:34

  If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• Luke 6:36

  “Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

• Luke 23:34

  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

• Acts 7:60

  He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

• Romans 12:14

  Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

• Romans 12:20

  Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”