12 Bible Verses about Repaying Evil For Evil

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes.

See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.

But I tell you, don’t resist an evildoer. On the contrary, if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, “If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the suffering we caused him.”

So the men of Judah said, “Why have you attacked us?”

They replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he did to us.”

Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?”

“I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.

Don’t say, “I’ll do to him what he did to me;
I’ll repay the man for what he has done.”

Don’t say, “I will avenge this evil!”
Wait on the Lord, and He will rescue you.

I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know
that it is I, Yahweh, who strikes.

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.

But You, Lord, be gracious to me and raise me up;
then I will repay them.