...while we were yet enemies, and hath commanded us to love our enemies, and to bless them that curse us, and pray for those who despitefully use us, and persecute us. When a friend is absent, our love towards him is kept alive and increased by our having his picture,...

...created being can resist his will. Christ advises us to love our enemies, to bless them that curse us, to do good to them that hate us, and pray for those who persecute ,us.* And inculcates these godlike principles as corresponding with the disposition and moral...

...hoping for nothing again. Nor are we to love and do good to those only whom we call our brethren. We are to love our enemies, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us. It is only thus that we can become the children of...

...conformity to Us requirements, and brings us into that heavenly temper and spirit by which we shall love our enemies, do good to them that hate us, and pray in faith, nothing doubting, for those who despitefully use us and persecute us. Let us open our eyes...

...love to our enemies, are not only required of us ; but required as the evidence of religion. We are to love our enemies, do good to them that hate us, and in all things, demean ourselves, as the meek and humble followers of Jesus Christ, that we may be the...

...trying to revenge himself; for .Christ, our Lord, has told us that we should " Bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for those who despitefully use us and persecute us." When Jacob heard what Esau said he would do to him, he was afraid, and he fled away into another country,...

...pray, your heart will be hard, and you will feel no sense of the presence of God. Jesus says, we must love our enemies, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that treat us ill. And, in another place, he says, ' When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have...

...deserve anything, however harsh or severe, at our hands for his own sake, we are, for the sake of Christ, to love our enemies, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us. For it is the will of God, that as we cannot render...

...man in his cause, at the expense of the rich. But if we wish to be indeed liberal, let us be kind to our enemies, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that despitefully use and persecute us. See Matt. 5. 44. This is that true charity which is enforced...

...those who injure us ; to love our enemies ; to do good to those who hate us ; to bless those who curse us, and pray for those who despitefully use us and persecute us." It will not allow us to cherish л revengeful feeling towards any one ; it will not allow us to avenge...