12 Bible Verses about Repaying Evil For Evil
Most Relevant Verses
Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.
See to it that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue good toward one another and toward all [people].
not repaying evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the other hand blessing [others], because for this [reason] you were called, so that you could inherit a blessing.
But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also.
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.
O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy [shall be he] who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.
But you, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up that I may repay them.
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