Psalm 38:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁰ They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ They also that render evil for good Are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ They also that render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Those who give, repay good with evil; they oppose me for pursuing good.

Psalm 38:20 Cross References

Psalm 142:7

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

Psalm 25:19

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Psalm 35:12

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

Psalm 35:19

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psalm 7:4

if I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy;)

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Matthew 5:10

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

1 Peter 3:13

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1 Samuel 23:12

Then said David, Will the men of Kei´lah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said, They will deliver thee up.

1 Samuel 23:5

So David and his men went to Kei´lah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Kei´lah.

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.