Matthew 12:32

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.