1 Samuel 25:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now David had said, “Surely it was in vain that I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, but he has returned me evil for good.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:13

Evil will not depart from the house of one who returns evil for good.

Ephesians 4:31

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but 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 suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil a recompense for good? 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 are my adversaries because I follow after good.

Psalm 37:8

Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret—it leads only to evil.

Psalm 35:12

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

Job 30:8

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

1 Samuel 25:13

David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every one 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

When they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, “Go, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?

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 never missed anything when we were in the fields as long as we were with them;

1 Samuel 25:20

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