Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Bless (that is, Wish and call down by prayer a blessing on) them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. This precept is taken from the Sermon on the Mount, which, from the numerous allusions to it, more or less direct, in different parts of the New Testament, seems to have been the storehouse of Christian morality among the churches.