Enemy

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningExodus 23:5Job 31:29Job 31:30Psalms 35:1–28Proverbs 24:17Proverbs 24:18Proverbs 25:21Proverbs 25:22Matthew 5:43–48Luke 6:27–36Romans 12:14Romans 12:20
• The wickedness of David'sPsalms 56:5Psalms 57:4Psalms 57:6Psalms 62:4Psalms 69:4Psalms 69:9Psalms 71:10Psalms 102:8Psalms 109:2–5Psalms 129:1–3
• His imprecations against
• See Prayer, Imprecatory
• Instances of forgiveness of
• David, of Absalom, and co-conspirators2 Samuel 19:62 Samuel 19:122 Samuel 19:13
• Jesus, of his persecutorsLuke 23:34
• Stephen, of his murderersActs 7:60

The passages, in Bible order (27)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 23:5

   If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

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   “The Lord tells us to relieve and lighten the burden of beasts of burden, even when they belong to our enemies. He is teaching us at a distance not to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others and not to laugh at our enemies. He wants to teach those who have exercised themselves in these disciplines to pray for their enemies.

   “If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden,....

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2. 2 Samuel 19:6

   You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

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   “In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends,....

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3. 2 Samuel 19:12

   You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

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   “Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh,.... Being of the same tribe, and therefore he should deal gently with them, as if they were parts of his body; and not be severe upon them, for the hand they had in the conspiracy, as they might fear: and wherefore then are ye the last to bring the king back? since they were so nearly related to him, and he so ready to forgive them.

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4. 2 Samuel 19:13

   And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 19:131 voice

   “And say ye to Amasa,....

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5. Job 31:29

   If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

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   “If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found me. That we are disciples of Almighty God, the keeping of charity is the only proof. For it is hence that Truth saith by Itself, By this shall all men know that ye are My Disciples, if ye have love one toward another. Which same love, if it really fills our heart, is wont to be exhibited in two ways; viz. if we at once love our friends in God, and our enemies for God.

   “If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,....

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6. Job 31:30

   I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

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   “Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. For he would sin, if he were to desire that to be done by God, which he himself either could not at all be able to do, or if he could it would not be in any wise right. For they who assail an enemy with curses, what other thing do they wish God to do in his case, but what they are either unable or ashamed to do themselves?

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7. Psalms 35:1–28

   Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 35:1–281 voice

   “This statement, as has been noted, refers to the devil and his followers.… For when he gives the command, "pray for your enemies," this statement does not apply to people. Thus, he asks that they be condemned whom he knows by virtue of his foreknowledge …

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8. Psalms 56:5

   All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

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   “Every day they wrest my words,.... Form, fashion, and shape them at their pleasure; construe them, and put what sense upon them they think fit. The word (u) is used of the formation of the human body, in Job 10:8; They put his words upon the rack, and made them speak what he never intended; as some men wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, 2Pe 3:16; and as the Jews wrested the words of Christ, Joh 2:

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9. Psalms 57:4

   My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

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   One thing you can count on: Corruption does not save those who get into it. On the contrary, it sets itself up against them, tears them down and brings about their doom. Woe to those people against whom this prophecy is written! For the evil they pursue is sharper than a two-edged sword, and it will first slay those who lay hold of it. Even their own tongue, as the psalmist points out, "is a sharp sword, and their teeth are spears and arrows."

   “My soul is among lions,.... Not literally understood; though such there might be in the wildernesses where he sometimes was; but figuratively, men comparable to lions, for their stoutness, courage, strength, fierceness, and cruelty; meaning not his own men, as some think, who were fierce, and of keen resentment against Saul, and would fain have killed him when he was in the cave, had they not been restrained by David, 1Sa 24:4; but Saul, and those with him, who were three thousand chosen men, stout, courageous, fierce, and furious.

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10. Psalms 57:6

    They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

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    “They have prepared a net for my steps,.... They laid snares for him, as the fowler does for the bird, in order to take him.

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11. Psalms 62:4

    They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

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    "But they have thought to cast away my price; they ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth but cursed with their heart." The price of [humanity's redemption] is the blood of Christ: "You have been bought," it is said, "with a price; do not become the slaves of people." The soldiers of Satan planned, therefore, to make this price useless to us, leading again into slavery those who had once been freed. "They ran in thirst." He is speaking of the eager plots of the demons, because they run against us, thirsting for our destruction.

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12. Psalms 69:4

    Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

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    Christ did not speak deceitfully but displayed all justice and humility. He did not suffer that kind of death [crucifixion] for anything he had done but so that those things that the prophets had predicted would happen to him through you as the very Spirit of Christ already foretold in the Psalms, saying, "They repaid me evil instead of good"; "What I had not taken, I repaid"; "They pierced my hands and feet"; "They put gall in my drink, and they satisfied my thirst with vinegar"; and "They cast lots for my clothing."

    “They that hate me without a cause,....

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13. Psalms 69:9

    because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

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    "Not every one who says to me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven," says the Scripture. Faith, therefore, august sovereign, must not be a mere matter of performance, for it is written, "The zeal of your house has devoured me." Let us then with faithful spirit and devout mind call on Jesus our Lord, let us believe that he is God, to the end that whatever we ask of the Father, we may obtain in his name. For the Father's will is that he be entreated through the Son, the Son's that the Father be entreated.

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14. Psalms 71:10

    For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,

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    “For mine enemies speak against, me,.... Or "say unto me" (y) what is expressed in the following verse, "God hath forsaken him"; and so these words are a reason of the above petitions: or "mine enemies speak to me"; or "of me" (z); not good, but evil, and so the Targum paraphrases it, "for mine enemies speak evil against me;'' or concerning me.

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15. Psalms 102:8

    All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

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    “Mine enemies reproach me all the day,.... For his principles and practices, being different from theirs; for his religion, and preciseness in it; for his faith and profession of it, and for his holy walk and conversation.

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16. Psalms 109:2–5

    For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

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    “For the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man has been opened against me. Let us see how the mouth of Judas the betrayer was opened against the Lord. He comes to the Lord in order to betray him, and he says: Rabbi — that is, master. Behold, the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man. I in my clemency wish to save him, and I offer him a kiss, and I wish to overcome his malice; yet he persists in doing evil, so as to betray me.

    “For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me,....

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