Psalm 38:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.

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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 me out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name! The righteous will surround me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me.

Psalm 25:19

Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.

Psalm 35:12

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

Psalm 35:19

Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

Psalm 7:4

if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Matthew 5:10

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?”

1 Peter 3:13

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is right?

1 John 3:12

and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

1 Samuel 23:12

Then said David, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the Lord said, “They will surrender you.”

1 Samuel 23:5

And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 25:16

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

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.