Now not all of this is my own personal experience, some of it is stuff I've heard through third parties and am unable to verify but here are the stories I've been told.
A guy from my school named Nathan told me he heard about or knew a woman in Africa who was married to a man. The man was starting to become bored with his wife because she had aged and gained a little bit of weight after pregnancies and maturing age. He decided to start an affair with his mistress and then brought the mistress to live with him alongside his wife.
The woman being a Christian, and believing that God wanted her to love her enemies, decided that instead of trying to destroy the woman who was threatening her marriage and ruining her happiness, she would take care of her and pray for her. She would pray everyday for God not to punish the mistress for stealing her husband and would even go out of her way to buy him groceries.
Within a matter of months, situations changed in the relationship between the mistress and the husband moved out and the wife got her husband back, without the other woman interfering and he began to love his wife and take care of her and be loyal again. All because this extremely strong woman choose to pursue love and righteousness rather than revenge or jealousy or self-interest.
I don't think I could ever do something like that - especially towards somebody who had hurt me so badly even though I've never been hurt like that and have never been married - but if I was in that situation I don't think I'd be strong enough to react the way that she did but that is how she reacted her Karma restored her marriage even though her husband is completely unworthy of somebody that selfless and giving.
I had a dishonest bell curving professor years ago at a time when my GPA was very important to me. This professor would mark right answers wrong to bring down the class average and hated me from the first or second day that he met me. If another student talked to him he would smile and act sweet and kind but if I said hi to him or talked to him, he would give me a dirty look and walk away. For an essay that I wrote, he gave me low grade and then told me there were 8 factual errors that were the reason for me getting the grade that I did. I went online and printed 8 article that showed that none of the things in my article that he said were errors were actually errors - they were all proven facts and he refused to change my grade because at my school, professors are pressured to maintain a low class average
I was angry and wanted to fight him but I met him in my religion class in University and he had been a devout Christian for many decades, albeit an imperfect and deeply flawed one and I had a dream where God was warning me not to fight him or create problems for me and God warned me I would be punished if I tried to get him fired or take revenge on him so I did nothing even though I was angry. Within 4 months, he was fired from my university and forced to work at another school which was a lot less prestigious then the old school he worked at, and not only that but I got straight A's in my next 2 years of university and was able to make up for the GPA loss caused by this dishonest professor who kept marking right answers wrong to bring down the class average. I was repaid for being gracious with my enemies.
In my own life I can think of lesser examples but that are still there. I was dating this guy and am still dating him and he told me multiple times he had a female best friend from high school that listens to all his problems and supports him and I felt jealous but when I was praying and worshiping, I felt like God was telling me not to complain to him about how his best friend whose extremely attractive, was making me uncomfortable so I hid my jealousy from him. Yesterday we went on a date after I tried hard to hide my jealousy and discomfort with his best friend out of respect for him and he told me he still talks to her but only occasionally and sporadically. Because I chose to selflessly endure his best friend being very big in his life while he is dating me, they began to lose interest in their friendship with each other.
So if you want to conquer an enemy - kill them with kindness - be gracious and loving and kind and good - and God will reward you and punish the wrong doer - even if you don't seek their punishment!
The bible says many times that this will happen but I don't have time to type out the verses right now.
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