1 Samuel 25:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³³ Blessed be your good sense, and blessed be you, who kept me today from bloodguilt and from avenging myself by my own hand!

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ and blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ And blessed be your discretion and advice, and blessed be you who have kept me today from bloodguiltiness and from avenging myself with my own hand.

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

Common English Bible

³³ And bless you and your good judgment for preventing me from shedding blood and taking vengeance into my own hands today!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ And blessed are you, who prevented me today from going to blood, and from taking revenge for myself with my own hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³³ And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to-day, from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.

1 Samuel 25:33 Cross References

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous strike me; let the faithful correct me. Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head, for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Exodus 22:2

(If the thief is found breaking in and is struck dead, no bloodguilt is incurred;

Proverbs 13:14

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 25:12

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise rebuke to a listening ear.

Proverbs 27:21

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, so a person is tested by being praised.

Proverbs 28:23

Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.

1 Samuel 24:19

For who has ever found an enemy and sent the enemy safely away? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

1 Samuel 25:26

“Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, since the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:31

my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for having saved himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”