1 Samuel 25:21

English Standard Version 2016

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:13

If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Romans 12:21

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Psalm 38:20

Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.

Psalm 37:8

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

Psalm 35:12

They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.

Job 30:8

A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

1 Samuel 25:13

And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.

Genesis 44:4

They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

1 Samuel 25:7

I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:15

Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.

1 Samuel 25:20

And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.