1 Samuel 25:26 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁶ 1 This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ So now, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, seeing that the Lord has prevented you from bloodguiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Common English Bible

²⁶ I pledge, my master, as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, that the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and taking vengeance into your own hands! But now let your enemies and those who seek to harm my master be exactly like Nabal!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as your soul lives, and as the Lord lives, who has kept your hand to yourself, and has prevented you from coming to blood: now, let your enemies be like Nabal, and like all those who are seeking evil for my lord.

1 Samuel 25:26 Cross References

Genesis 20:6

And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

2 Samuel 18:32

And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.

2 Kings 2:2

And fifty men of the sons of the prophets followed them, and stood in sight at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 4:6

1 Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber, and rested there.

Psalm 44:3

0 But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame : and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.

Proverbs 31:12

9 She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.

Jeremiah 29:22

0 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:

Daniel 4:19

7 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and redeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy offences.

Hebrews 10:30

9 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

1 Samuel 1:26

Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

1 Samuel 2:9

4 And thrust it into the kettle, or into the caldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest took to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo.

1 Samuel 20:16

1 And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the arrows.

1 Samuel 20:3

Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.

1 Samuel 22:3

That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the soil of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day.

1 Samuel 25:25

0 And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel,

1 Samuel 25:39

4 But Saul gave Michol his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was of Gallium.

1 Samuel 26:10

5 And David said to Abner: Art not thou a man? and who is like thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to kill the king thy lord.