12 Bible Verses about Repaying Evil For Evil

Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.

Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.

But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to take Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.

Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.

Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.

Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.

My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.

O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.