Lyrics · Luke
Love Your Enemies
Luke 6:27-49
About this song
About this song
This song belongs to the Luke collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Love Your Enemies
Luke · Neoclassical Dark Wave
[Refrain - unaccompanied opening]
Love your enemies.
Do good to those who hate you.
Bless the mouth that curses you;
Pray for the hand raised against you.
[Verse 1 - rolling pulse]
Offer the other cheek; release the cloak,
Open the hand when another asks.
Do unto others as you would receive,
Not counting the road back to yourself.
[Verse 2 - widening measure]
If love returns only where love began,
What grace has crossed the boundary?
The Highest is kind to the unthankful and evil;
Be merciful as your Father is merciful.
[Bridge - inward turn]
Judge not. Condemn not. Forgive.
The measure you pour will return overflowing.
Can the blind lead the blind past the ditch?
First take the beam from your own eye.
[Verse 3 - fruit test]
A tree is known by the fruit on its branches,
The mouth draws words from the heart's stored treasure.
Why call Me Lord and leave My sayings undone?
Hearing becomes truth when the hands obey.
[Refrain - displaced return]
Love your enemies.
Do good, lend, and look for nothing again.
Bless, pray, forgive, give;
Become like the merciful Father.
[Outro - grounded]
Dig deep. Lay the foundation on rock.
The flood may rise, the stream may strike;
The house that hears and does will stand.
The house with no foundation falls.

