Proverbs 17:13 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹³ If a man returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. [Ps. 109:4, 5; Jer. 18:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.

Common English Bible

¹³ Evil will never depart from the house of those who return evil for good.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not withdraw from his house.

Proverbs 17:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

1 Kings 21:22

and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.

Psalm 35:12

They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.

Psalm 38:20

Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Matthew 27:25

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

Matthew 27:5

And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.

Romans 12:17

Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

1 Samuel 19:4

And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you;

1 Samuel 24:17

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.

1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.