Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
Proverbs 17:13 - New Revised Standard Version Evil will not depart from the house of one who returns evil for good. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. [Ps. 109:4, 5; Jer. 18:20.] American Standard Version (1901) Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house. Common English Bible Evil will never depart from the house of those who return evil for good. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not withdraw from his house. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. |
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and have caused Israel to sin.
Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.
Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.
See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
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.
Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul, saying to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you;
He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.
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.