Proverbs 17:13

New American Bible - revised edition

If you return evil for good, evil will not depart from your house.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

1 Kings 21:22

I will make your house like that of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me by leading Israel into sin.”

Psalm 35:12

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

Psalm 38:20

My enemies live and grow strong, those who hate me grow numerous fraudulently,

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but the just shall be recompensed with good.

Matthew 27:25

And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.”

Matthew 27:5

Flinging the money into the temple, he departed and went off and hanged himself.

Romans 12:17

Do not repay anyone evil for evil; be concerned for what is noble in the sight of all.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that no one returns evil for evil; rather, always seek what is good [both] for each other and for all.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.

1 Samuel 19:4

Jonathan then spoke well of David to his father Saul, telling him: “The king should not harm his servant David. He has not harmed you, but has helped you very much by his deeds.

1 Samuel 24:17

When David finished saying these things to Saul, Saul answered, “Is that your voice, my son David?” And he wept freely.

1 Samuel 25:21

David had just been saying: “Indeed, it was in vain that I guarded all this man’s possessions in the wilderness, so that nothing of his was missing. He has repaid good with evil.