19 Bible Verses about Retribution

Never revenge yourself, beloved, but leave the field clear for God's wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people.

Then Jesus said to him. "Put back your sword into its place! for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty.

or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.

"You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. "But I tell you not to retaliate the injury; but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also;

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you, and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.read more.
They shall suffer punishment, even an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his glorious majesty, when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them.

"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again; "those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed. For He will render to every man according to his works; eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;read more.
but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. For there is no partiality with God.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed. And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances. Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.read more.
Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents; nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

"that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar. "In solemn truth I tell you that all these things will come upon this generation.

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind. They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!

Instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he had not given God the glory, and being eaten up by worms, he died.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land? "While it remained unsold, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was not the price at your own disposal? How could you conceive this act in your heart? You have not lied unto men, but unto God." As Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and all who heard were awe-struck.

For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself. This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep.

and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed.

But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.