Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, the plague shall not depart from his house.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Holman Bible
evil will never depart from his house.
International Standard Version
The person who repays good with evil will never see evil leave his home.
A Conservative Version
He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
American Standard Version
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.
Amplified
Whoever returns evil for good,
Evil will not depart from his house.
Bible in Basic English
If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.
Darby Translation
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Julia Smith Translation
He turning back evil, instead of good, evil shall not move from his house.
King James 2000
Whosoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[For] he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
Modern King James verseion
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
NET Bible
As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.
New Heart English Bible
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
The Emphasized Bible
He that returneth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Webster
Whoever rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
World English Bible
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not from his house.
Themes
Evil » Social in the church » In politics
Evil » Those that reward evil for good
Evil » Who evil shall not depart from
Interlinear
Shuwb
Ra`
רעה רע
Ra`
evil, wickedness, wicked, hief, hurt, bad, trouble, sore, affliction, ill, adversity, favoured, harm, naught, noisome, grievous, sad,
Usage: 669
References
Fausets
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 17:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
12 It were better to come against a she Bear robbed of her whelps, than against a fool in his foolishness. 13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, the plague shall not depart from his house. 14 He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.
Cross References
Psalm 35:12
They reward me evil for good, to the great discomfort of my soul.
1 Samuel 24:17
and said to David, "Thou art more righteous than I, for thou hast rewarded me with good, and I have rewarded thee with evil.
1 Samuel 31:2-3
And the Philistines followed after Saul and his sons, and slew Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
2 Samuel 12:10
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.'
2 Samuel 21:1-14
Then there fell a hunger in the days of David: three years, year by year. And David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, "It is for Saul's sake and the house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites."
Psalm 38:20
They also that reward evil for good are against me, because I follow the thing that is good.
Psalm 55:12-15
If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.
Psalm 109:4-13
For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer.
Jeremiah 18:20-21
Do they not recompense evil for good, when they dig a pit for my soul? Remember, how that I stood before thee, to speak for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Matthew 27:5
And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself.
Matthew 27:25
Then answered all the people, and said, "His blood be on us, and on our children."
Romans 12:17
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide aforehand things honest in the sight of all men.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that none recompense evil for evil unto any man: but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
1 Peter 3:9
not rendering evil for evil, neither rebuke for rebuke: but contrariwise, bless: remembering that ye are thereunto called, even that ye should be heirs of blessing.