Luke 6:28
Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who slander you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
In Context
27But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
Cross References
Ezekiel 36:5Because of this, thus says the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal, I have spoken about the remainder of the nations, and about all of Idumea, who have given my land to themselves, joyfully, as an inheritance, and with all the heart and mind, and who have cast it out, so that they may lay waste to it.
Luke 6:27But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
Luke 23:34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.” And truly, dividing his garments, they cast lots.
Acts 14:5Now when an assault had been planned by the Gentiles and the Jews with their leaders, so that they might treat them with contempt and stone them,
1 Corinthians 4:12And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.
1 Peter 3:9not repaying evil with evil, nor slander with slander, but, to the contrary, repaying with blessings. For to this you have been called, so that you may possess the inheritance of a blessing.
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:28-37
Exhortations to Justice and Mercy. 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For… Read the whole commentary →