1 Samuel 25:33

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Cross References

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Exodus 22:2

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

Proverbs 13:14

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Proverbs 25:12

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

Proverbs 27:21

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

Proverbs 28:23

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Proverbs 9:9

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the LORD reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

1 Samuel 25:26

Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Naval.

1 Samuel 25:31

that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.