Psalm 38:20

God's Word

They pay me back with evil instead of good, and they accuse me because I try to do what is good.

Cross References

Psalm 142:7

Release my soul from prison so that I may give thanks to your name. Righteous people will surround me because you are good to me.

Psalm 25:19

See how my enemies have increased in number, how they have hated me with vicious hatred!

Psalm 35:12

I am devastated because they pay me back with evil instead of good.

Psalm 35:19

Do not let my treacherous enemies gloat over me. Do not let those who hate me for no reason wink ⌞at me⌟.

Psalm 7:4

if I have paid back my friend with evil or rescued someone who has no reason to attack me—

Jeremiah 18:20

Good should not be paid back with evil. They dig a pit to take my life. Remember how I stood in your presence and pleaded for them in order to turn your anger away from them.

Matthew 5:10

Blessed are those who are persecuted for doing what God approves of. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

John 10:32

Jesus replied to them, “I’ve shown you many good things that come from the Father. For which of these good things do you want to stone me to death?”

1 Peter 3:13

Who will harm you if you are devoted to doing what is good?

1 John 3:12

Don’t be like Cain. He was a child of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain murder his brother? Because the things Cain did were evil and the things his brother did had God’s approval.

1 Samuel 23:12

“Will the citizens of Keilah hand me and my men over to Saul?” David asked. “They will hand you over,” the Lord answered.

1 Samuel 23:5

David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines, drove off their livestock, and decisively defeated them. So David rescued the people who lived in Keilah.

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall protecting us day and night as long as we were watching the sheep near them.

1 Samuel 25:21

David had thought, “I guarded this man’s stuff in the desert for nothing! Not one of his possessions was missing. Yet, he has paid me back with evil when I was good to him.