Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
General references
Bible References
Render
Psalm 7:4
if I have repaid {my ally} [with] harm, or [if] I have plundered my enemy without cause,
Psalm 35:12
They repay me evil in place of good. [It is] bereavement to my soul.
Psalm 109:3
They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause.
1 Samuel 19:4
So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you [has been] very good.
1 Samuel 23:5
So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with [the] Philistines. They drove off their livestock and {dealt them a heavy blow}. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 25:16
They were a wall to us both night and day, all {the days we were} with them keeping the sheep.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing {before you} to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.
Because
Matthew 5:10
Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 10:32
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"
1 Peter 3:13
And who [is] the one who will harm you if you are a zealous adherent for what is good?
1 Peter 4:14
If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.
General references
Proverbs 17:13
[For] he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.