Your life, your call.
But to let you know where I am coming from in the Good Book:
Love Your Enemies
…43You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’ 44
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.…
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1 Samuel 24:17
and said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
Proverbs 19:11
A man's insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
Luke 6:27
But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Luke 6:28
bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 23:34
Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
Treasury of Scripture
But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you;
Exodus 23:4,5
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again…
2 Kings 6:22
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite
them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
2 Chronicles 28:9-15
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name
was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage
that reacheth up unto heaven…
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Matthew 5
1.
Jesus' sermon on the mount:
3.
The Beattitudes;
13.
the salt of the earth;
14.
the light of the world.
17.
He came to fulfill the law.
21.
What it is to kill;
27.
to commit adultery;
33.
to swear.
38.
He exhorts to forgive wrong,
43.
to love our enemies;
48.
and to labor after perfection.
These scriptures have a little benefit: if you follow them, it can give one great happiness in God's suggestions for life on earth. If you practice forgiveness, and you thank God for it, your heart has a tendency to have fire in your joy. Try it, you may like it..... or not.