12 Bible Verses about Repaying Evil For Evil

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

But I say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!

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

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

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work.

Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall save thee.

And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite.

Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.

But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.