Enemy

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Bible verses about “Enemy”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Exodus 23:5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
• Job 31:29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
• Job 31:30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
• Psalms 35:1Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
• Psalms 35:2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
• Psalms 35:3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
• Psalms 35:4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
• Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
• Psalms 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
• Psalms 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
• Psalms 35:8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
• Psalms 35:9And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
• Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
• Psalms 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
• Psalms 35:12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
• Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
• Psalms 35:14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
• Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
• Psalms 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
• Psalms 35:17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
• Psalms 35:18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
• Psalms 35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
• Psalms 35:20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
• Psalms 35:21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
• Psalms 35:22This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
• Psalms 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
• Psalms 35:24Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
• Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
• Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
• Psalms 35:27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
• Psalms 35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
• Proverbs 24:17Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
• Proverbs 24:18Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
• Proverbs 25:21If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
• Proverbs 25:22For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
• Matthew 5:43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
• Matthew 5:44But 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;
• Matthew 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
• Matthew 5:46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
• Matthew 5:47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?