12 Bible Verses about Repaying Evil For Evil

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for 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 3,000 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."

Do not say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done."

Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.

And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.

O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!

But you, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them!