1 Samuel 25:33 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³³ and blessed be thy wisdom, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine 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 smite me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.

Exodus 22:2

If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he die, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Proverbs 13:14

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To depart from the snares of death.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 25:12

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

Proverbs 27:21

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, And a man is tried by his praise.

Proverbs 28:23

He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favour Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

1 Samuel 25:26

Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD 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.

1 Samuel 25:31

that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: and when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.