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Bible Verses About Enemies

This collection includes 50 passages about Enemies. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

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But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

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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;

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And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

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Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

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Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

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I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

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But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

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Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.

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But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

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I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

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Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

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Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

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Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

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They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

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Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

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Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

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For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

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Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

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Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

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For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

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Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

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For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

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For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

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And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

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For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

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Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

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The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

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When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

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