Psalm 38:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.

Cross References

Psalm 142:7

Bring me out of prison, so that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

Psalm 25:19

Consider how many are my foes and with what violent hatred they hate me.

Psalm 35:12

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

Psalm 35:19

Do not let my treacherous enemies rejoice over me or those who hate me without cause wink the eye.

Psalm 7:4

if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,

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.

Matthew 5:10

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

John 10:32

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”

1 Peter 3:13

Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

1 Samuel 23:12

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” The Lord said, “They will surrender you.”

1 Samuel 23:5

So David and his men went to Keilah, fought with the Philistines, brought away their livestock, and dealt them a heavy defeat. Thus David rescued the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 25:16

they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

1 Samuel 25:21

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.