1 Samuel 25:21

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 17:13

He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

Ephesians 4:26

Be ye angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Romans 12:21

Be thou not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God desires, than for doing evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but instead giving praise, knowing that ye were called for this, so that ye might inherit a blessing.

Jeremiah 18:20

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

Psalm 38:20

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

Psalm 37:8

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Fret not thyself, [it tends] only to evil-doing.

Psalm 35:12

They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereaving of my soul.

Job 30:8

[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

1 Samuel 25:13

And David said to his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword, and David also girded on his sword. And there went up after David about four hundred men, and two hundred abode by the baggage.

Genesis 44:4

[And] when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men, and when thou overtake them, say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?

1 Samuel 25:7

And now I have heard that thou have shearers. Thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them all the while they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:15

But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither did we miss anything as long as we went with them when we were in the fields.

1 Samuel 25:20

And it was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.