How should we treat our enemies? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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We should love them, be kind to them, and treat them well.

Exodus 23:4 View context

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Proverbs 25:21 View context

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Matthew 5:44 View context

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;

Luke 6:35 View context

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.

We should hate them and wish them evil.

Psalm 35:6 View context

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Psalm 55:15 View context

Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

Psalm 58:6-7 View context

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

Psalm 68:23 View context

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Psalm 69:22-28 View context

Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.

For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Psalm 83:9-10 View context

Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

[Which] perished at En-dor: they became [as] dung for the earth.

Psalm 109:6-14 View context

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psalm 139:22 View context

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

Lamentations 3:64-66 View context

Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

1 Corinthians 16:22 View context

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.