Elisha replied, ‘Don’t kill them. Do you kill those you have captured with your sword or your bow? Set food and water in front of them so they can eat and drink and go to their master.’
Matthew 5:44 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, [Prov. 25:21, 22.] American Standard Version (1901) but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; Common English Bible But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who harass you Catholic Public Domain Version But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: |
Elisha replied, ‘Don’t kill them. Do you kill those you have captured with your sword or your bow? Set food and water in front of them so they can eat and drink and go to their master.’
A person’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offence.
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.” , And they divided his clothes and cast lots.
‘I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.
But Paul called out in a loud voice, ‘Don’t harm yourself, because we’re all here! ’
He knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them! ’ And after saying this, he fell asleep.
See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.
when he was insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.
and said to David, ‘You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.