Proverbs 17:13

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Proverbs 17:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 An evil man seeks only rebellion; a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

13 If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

14 To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous— both are detestable to the LORD.

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1 Samuel 24:17

and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.

1 Samuel 31:2

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

1 Samuel 31:3

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

2 Samuel 21:1

During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 21:2

At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)

2 Samuel 21:3

So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

2 Samuel 21:4

The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied.

2 Samuel 21:5

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.

2 Samuel 21:7

Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

2 Samuel 21:8

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21:9

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

2 Samuel 21:11

When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,

2 Samuel 21:12

he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

2 Samuel 21:13

So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.

2 Samuel 21:14

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

Psalms 35:12

They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

Psalms 38:20

Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

Psalms 55:12

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

Psalms 55:13

But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.

Psalms 55:14

We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

Psalms 55:15

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

Psalms 109:4

In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

Psalms 109:5

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psalms 109:6

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Psalms 109:7

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

Psalms 109:8

May his days be few; may another take his position.

Psalms 109:9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:10

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Psalms 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Psalms 109:12

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Matthew 27:5

So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Romans 12:17

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.