12 Bible Verses about Repaying Evil For Evil

Most Relevant Verses

Romans 12:17

Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See to it that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue good toward one another and toward all [people].

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Genesis 50:15

And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father [was] dead, they said, "It may be [that] Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him."

Judges 15:10

And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" And they said, "To bind Samson; to do to him just as he did to us."

Judges 15:11

Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines [are] ruling over us? What [is] this [that] you have done to us?" And he said to them, "Just as they did to me, so I have done to them."

Proverbs 24:29

Do not say, "Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed."

Ezekiel 7:9

And my eye will not take pity, and I will not show compassion. According to your ways I will {deal with you}, and your detestable things will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh [who] strikes.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy [shall be he] who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.

Psalm 41:10

But you, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up that I may repay them.

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