April 21, 2022 Bible Verse of the Day | Bless Those Who Persecute you
Read and Meditate on Today’s Daily Bible Verse of the Day for Thursday 21st April 2022. God bless you through His Word!
APRIL 21, 2022 BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY, THURSDAY
Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them. – Romans 12:14 – NLT
Other Translations…
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. – NRSV
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. – KJV
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. – ESV
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. – NKJV
There are many persecutors of God’s people. Sometimes these persecutors are in the church (compare Philippians 1:15-18). There can be times when fellow Christians vex and hound us. Persecution also comes from those who are not Christians.
No matter who our enemies are, Paul said we are to “bless them” (this is stated twice). The apostle also said we are not to “curse” those who are opposed to us and or the gospel. This teaching echoes Matthew 5:44, Acts 7:59-60, and Luke 23:34. We should think of this blessing as “a friendly disposition towards enemies” (Brown, 1:215).
Bless (eulogeo) is the same term Jesus used in Matthew 5:44. Those who first read this may have been surprised with the tenses; the idea is “keep blessing those who are continuing to persecute you.” Bless and persecute are both present tense verbs, and bless is constructed in such a way where it has the force of a command. Wuest (4:374) renders this verse, “Be constantly blessing those who are constantly persecuting you; be blessing and stop cursing.”
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